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The Saturday Shift

I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Relationship, Redacted

For as long as I can remember, you reminisced. About life during World War II, about seeing Sinatra with your friends at the Brooklyn...

Swimming in an Asylum

Repton Park, Woodford Green, London. It was Christmastime and The Virgin Active sign was filled-in with tinsel. Glass barriers slid open and a track-suited...

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Clothespins

In November 2011, four years after her initial diagnosis, my 64-year-old sister Ellie was dying of ovarian cancer. As I’d promised months earlier, I...

Passing Through

Danny never wanted a truck, even when the other kids in his high school made fun of his car, with its thick fabric seats...

Bar Talk

Joy

Dream Journal Entry #7

Please don’t stand me up again ++Dad. Not tonight — it’s the first ++++sound sleep in weeks. I’m waiting ++in the blue pickup, my hair washed +++++and fragrant...

Anxious Angels

Holyland, USA

The Spot

What’s Left Unsaid

Advice

Ask Annie: How Writers Should Read

Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...

Further Reading