Cleanness by Garth Greenwell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2020 240 pages / Amazon For five years, I was a waitress at a small breakfast diner in the suburbs…
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The men are vibrant, flashy, full of color. The women are of neutral tones. The men are on display; they catch your eye. The women blend in with their shades.…
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ArtCultureFilmReviewArthur-Holics Anonymous: Why obsessing about Todd Phillips’ Joker is a Source of Inspiration for Artists and Professionals
As I was obsessing about sweet Arthur Fleck and super-hot Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, like many others, I started following online all of those thousand social media groups posting a thousand…
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1. above ground pool Born rusted: the swingset across the yard left a scar that stays these twenty-four years on my left knee. Diving rings fall in bright red and…
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Like entering a tastefully debauched party in a loft and finding out it used to be a yeshiva, I walked into Russian Doll not expecting a tour of the modern…
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sound of wave in channel I & II by Stephen Ratcliffe BlazeVOX, October 2018 1020 pages in two volumes / SPD1, SPD2 “[T]he principle of rhyme” Stephen Ratcliffe once…
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Image Credit: “Red Dresses” by Elena Filatov Red is my favourite colour. I have heard it said that red is a masculine colour, a patriarchal colour; the colour of…
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Square between slate cliffs and rising water we draw a line in silt. We neither cross it nor wander too far from. We fill our beach with bones of gulls…
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[Image: “The Wide Night,” Rebecca Rebouché] She is the type of girl who goes to parties with open invitations, skirting the edges of the dance floor while the sea ebbs…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Four doors down, next to the dumpster, lives a silver haired mother of misfits and magpies. She diagrams patterns of birds on the wing through scatters of millet and thistle…
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ConversationInterview“F*ck Your Thinking:” Kenning JP García on Proust, Love, Oversleeping, and Writing for Yourself
I deserve to fail. I embrace that too. I will survive. It’s what I do. Over the last few months of 2019, I spoke with author Kenning JP García over…
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Once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to support that belief. If you believe in the devil he will surely come striding down your road one…
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Catechesis, a postpastoral by Lindsay Lusby University of Utah Press, August 2019 (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) 64 pages / Amazon “Now: make it new…
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