Save the Bathwater by Marina Carreira’s Get Fresh Books LLC, June 2018 61 pgs / GFB Marina Carreira’s first full-length book, Save the Bathwater, is like a concrete sidewalk,…
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On a bright Wednesday morning in March, we leave for daycare and work because that is what we do, even when we’ve spent the evening in Trauma One of Children’s…
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Yet had I been alone I would not have done it—I remember my state of mind to be thus at the time—alone I would never have done it. – St.…
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In July, 2012, I turned the corner to the back area of Crush Bar after paying my tab. Burnt, Tongue, the reading series dedicated to Tom Spanbauer and his infamous…
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[Image: Remedios Varo, “Papilla Estelar”] I met the autodidact outside the world’s oldest library. That’s how he introduced himself to me: the autodidact. With a definite article, as though he were…
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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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“You’re a mother now,” the anesthesiologist with the long blonde hair says as I’m wheeled to recovery. Mother. I am a Mother now? Five days before I am a mother,…
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IntrospectionMusicVariations on a Theme: In Memoriam, Amy Winehouse: Years Later, My Tears Are Still Drying on Their Own
When Amy Winehouse died in 2011, I was not a particularly big fan of the singer. I knew her big hits like “Rehab,” and “Back to Black” because who didn’t?…
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IntrospectionMusicVariations on a Theme: Sometimes You’re at a Pedro the Lion Concert, Mourning the Very Concept of Existence, and Other Times You are in a Hospital, Celebrating It
There’s something special about following a band for over a decade—especially if you started listening to that band in your youth—as the discography of the band starts to layer itself…
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Image Credit: Bailey Pennington In that very moment—hearing the doctor strip his hands free of the latex gloves he had just used in the examination room—my worst nightmare was…
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I met Frances Badalamenti in the summer of 2014, at a writing workshop in Portland. We were both working on book-length projects, and I was immediately struck by the electric…
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I’m From Nowhere by Lindsay Lerman Clash Books, forthcoming September 2019 172 pages / Amazon / Clash (preorders ship in June) I’m From Nowhere is a portrait of Claire, whose…
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if i told you this story, how culturally illiterate would you think i am? * panic had come spurting out and i was looking for a plug to…