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This summer, towards the end of my twenties, my mother was diagnosed with cancer. She had a colonoscopy in June, a procedure she found torturous, and…
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It’s book fair season so I haven’t been writing very much but this is just a quick note to say that I removed the paywall on my last post because I had…
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A girl I know one time told me about the golden ratio. To demonstrate she lined up her face at a side angle, approximated measurements in the air. See…
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Last summer, in some kind of identity crisis, I bought this pink sequined dress from Ganni because it was deeply discounted. It was probably somewhere…
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Someone I love has been sick and hospitalized and I’ve been feeling anxious. so I decided to watch a film about nuclear testing (Grey’s Anatomy, my…
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Early in May, it seemed like my life started to come apart. I often feel like it’s all haphazardly stitched together anyway, a feeling that is…
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I started reading Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes, which the New York Review of Books is publishing this summer. It’s a terrifying story about…
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my mother is a hippie and my father hates the government so one thing i missed out on is Barbie. i felt nothing when i watched the trailer for Greta…
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Where have all the men gone?
It’s all doom and gloom out there in the world. But it’s finally warm in New York, I went to stay with one of my closest friends over Easter, my sister…
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i was thinking for some reason about this passage from The Middle Stories, this weird and wild collection of modern day fairy tales that Sheila Heti…
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ephemeras
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