We wanted to spotlight some of the stellar posts we’ve had on Entropy this year. After our most popular feature by far, the Where to Submit series, here is a round-up of the most-read articles, stories & essays at Entropy in 2017 that were published in 2017.
0. WHERE TO SUBMIT SERIES Edited by Dennis James Sweeney
1. A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major by Seo-Young J. Chu (Creative Nonfiction)
2. I Was a Twelve Year Old Priestess in the Occult, or so I Was Made to Believe by Nancy Hightower (Creative Nonfiction)
3. Dweller on the Threshold: On Being Trans, But Not Having Always Known by Jason Rusch (Creative Nonfiction)
4. NAME TAGS #5: How Naming My Family’s White Supremacy Led Me to Change My Own Name by Jessie Daniels (Creative Nonfiction / Name Tags)
5. A UFO Book Collecting Primer by Ben Roylance (List / Paranormal / Occult)
6. Re: Your MFA Application by Thomas Cook (Creative Nonfiction)
7. La Petite Mort by Emily Eveland (Creative Nonfiction)
8. Welcome to DIS•ARTICULATIONS 2017 by Terry Wolverton (Poetry)
9. Flesh by Connie Shen (Creative Nonfiction)
10. Lineage by Kelly Thompson (Creative Nonfiction)
11. Trigger Points by Anne Falkowski (Creative Nonfiction)
12. NAME TAGS #2: ‘Bout My Gov’ment Name— by Jay Dodd (Language / Name Tags)
13. Session Report: Gloomhaven and Telling New Stories by Byron Campbell (Games / Review / Board Games)
14. Prose as Music: The Use of Language and Story Structure in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” by Suzzanna Matthews-Amanzio (Music)
15. Evangelical Confessions of a Diehard Liberal by Nancy Hightower (Creative Nonfiction)
16. A Different Kind of Information: HBO’s Westworld and Sexual Trauma by Jason Phoebe Rusch (Creative Nonfiction / Televisision / Science, Technology)
17. Redefining LA Poetry: Robin Coste Lewis and the Emerging Poets by Mike Sonksen (Poetry / Culture)
18. You Should Frame This by Holly Aldrich (Creative Nonfiction)
19. Name Tags #1: Fursonas by Tim Susman (Language / Culture / Name Tags)
20. Misogyny, personal experiences, and numbers: Izzy Lee talks sexism in the film industry by Izzy Lee (Culture / Film)
21. Ovis Dalli by Cameron William Luis Rentsch (Creative Nonfiction)
22. Houdah Abotteen: Breaking Stereotypes Through Strength and Love by Sean Lawlor (Health, Wellness / Culture)
23. A Road Trip Through Trumpland by Julia Bosson (Current Events / Creative Nonfiction)
24. Mini-Syllabus: Poetry of the Caribbean Coolie Diaspora by Rajiv Mohabir (Syllabus)
25. I Haven’t Called You Since the Election by Steve Edwards (Current Events / Poetry)
26. Variations on a Theme: With a Love Like That by Cate Root (Music)
27. May We Be Well: a note on trauma and self care for anyone currently engaging in protest by Allison Carter (How-To / Politics / Current Events)
28. Girl Who’s Been Hurt: Poems and Narratives of Identity, Trauma, Love and More by Belinda Cai (Creative Nonfiction)
29. Notes on Culture and Belonging or Call-out Culture by Raquel Salas Rivera (Creative Nonfiction)
30. Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Kristi Coulter by Katharine Coldiron (Interview)
31. You Are White, They Think by Natasha Kochicheril Moni (Creative Nonfiction)
32. Somewhere Between TMI and TMJ by Avery M. Guess (Creative Nonfiction)
33. Manners by Rani Neutill (Creative Nonfiction / Food)
34. The /r/oundness of my body, an essay in nudes by Jacklyn Janeksela (Creative Nonfiction) [NSFW]
35. DIS•ARTICULATIONS 2017: April COLLABORATING POET: ashaki m. jackson by Terry Wolverton (Poetry)
36. NOW YOU KNOW I AM AN ORPHAN by Lisa Marie Basile (Creative Nonfiction)
37. The Trump in me. by Chloé Cela (Current Events / Creative Nonfiction)
38. This is What Democracy Looks Like: Photos From Airport Protests This Weekend (Photography / Current Events)
39. Sarah Gerard on self-abandonment, waking up, and rebuilding after divorce by Zeke Perkins (Conversation / Interview)
40. New Fiction by Jessie Carver: “A Natural History” by Jessie Carver (Fiction)
And in case you want to travel back in time a bit further, here are some of our most popular posts ever, since launching in 2014, not including pieces listed above:
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The Essential Albums of Vaporwave by Giacomo Lee (Music)
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ON MARJORIE PERLOFF by Fred Moten (Culture / Opinion)
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If You Hear Something Say Something, Or If You’re Not At The Table You’re On The Menu by Jen Hofer (Culture / Opinion)
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Some Thoughts on The Signal by Janice Lee (Film / Review / Sci Fi)
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21 Women Writers From Before 1500 That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (List)
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25 Very Literary Songs (List / Music)
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30 Years of Ghibli: Princess Mononoke by Edward J Rathke (Film / Review)
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The Poetics of Spaces: Outer Space by Janice Lee (Creative Nonfiction)
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Autobiography of a Tree by Annie Wenstrup (Creative Nonfiction)
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The House is On Fire: Race, Gentrification, Houston and the de Menil Family Legacy by John Pluecker (Current Events)
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D&D with Entropy: Lost Mine of Phandelver – Part One by Edward J Rathke (Board Games / Conversation / Games / Fantasy)
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On Trigger Warnings, Part I: In the Creative Writing Classroom by M./Maybe Henry Milks (with CAConrad, Jos A. Charles, Andrea Lawlor, Sarah Schulman, Aishah Shadidah Simmons, Anna Joy Springer) (Conversation / Literature / Opinion)
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30 Years of Ghibli: Laputa: Castle in the Sky by Edward J Rathke (Film)
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Cosmopolitan Moonshine: The SoGoth Populism of the Drive-By Truckers, Part One by Jason Gubbels (Literature / Music)
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The Books That Have Devastated Us (List)
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25 Novels On Failure by Janice Lee (List)
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We’ve All Always Been Lichens: Donna Haraway, the Cthulhucene, and the Capitalocene by Leif Haven (Sci Fi / Literature)
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On Drinking Less by Mairead Case (Creative Nonfiction)
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My Body’s Bad Glue by Carolyn Zaikowski (Creative Nonfiction)
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The Walking Dead Season 2: A bittersweet farewell to Clementine and proper conclusions. by Eugene Lee (Video Games)
