We wanted to spotlight some of the stellar posts we’ve had on Entropy this year. Our most popular features by far are the Where to Submit series, then, our Best of 2019 lists (and our previous annual Best of __ lists), as well as our Small Press Interviews. Excluding those features & resources, here is a round-up of the most-read articles, stories & essays at Entropy in 2019 that were published in 2019.
1. An Interview with Molly Baz by Danielle Susi (Food)
2. WOVEN: The Threat of a Female Body by Abby Perry (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
3. I Was Born From a Woman Whose Body Was Stolen by Amie Newman (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
4. The Power of Blood by Akhila Kolisetty (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
5. How Bodybuilding Ruined My Life by Matthew Kurowski (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
6. Literacy Narrative: Hold the Air by Azure Lintulahti (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
7. The Culinary Appeal of the French Taco by Chelsea Carrick (Food)
8. Literacy Narrative: Reader, I’m Literate by Brittany J. Baron (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
9. Foster Care: Heroic Measures by Amy Whipple (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
10. 11 Palestinian-American Poets to Read by Noor Hindi (List/Review)
11. The Secret Fist by Clare Boerigter (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
12. Percolations by Daniel Elder (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
13. Central Heating by Brian Benson (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
14. The Only Black Man in Medina, North Dakota by Phillip Russell (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
15. You Are a Mother Now by Melissa Ximena Golebiowski (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
16. Literacy Narrative: You are Learning a New Language by Katie Prince (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
17. Literacy Narrative: The Man Who Mistook Himself for Alice Munro by Mark Gozonsky (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
18. Listing Literary San Francisco by Denise Sullivan (Culture/List)
19. The Talking Cure: Bunnies by Beth Boyle Machlan (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
20. The Loose Ends of Loss: When Someone Dies Mad At You by Danielle Shorr (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
21. Diagnosis: A Literacy by Janelle Tan (Creative Nonfiction/Essay/Poetry)
22. Dinnerview: Tommy Pico by Danielle Susi (Food)
23. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity by Byron Alexander Campbell (Video Games)
24. Literacy Narrative: When I Was Thirty-Five: Singing Sinatra My Way by Richard Compean (Creative Nonfiction/Essay/Music)
25. New Poetry from Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi (Poetry)
26. Listing Literary Los Angeles: Part 1 by Mike Sonksen (Culture/List)
27. The Weight of Heavy: Notes on Kiese Laymon’s American Memoir by Tania Pabón Acosta (Review)
28. Because Love is a Roar: Sketching a Critical Race Poetics by Jason Magabo Perez (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
29. Mad Girl by Kat Moore (Creative Nonfiction/Essay/Music)
30. Literacy Narrative: Echoing Halloos and Memories by Leigh Stern (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
31. Literacy Narrative: Jean Rhys, the Writing Life, and Money by Rachel Veroff (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
32. Literacy Narrative: Consentido by Aurora Huiza (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
33. Girls and Boys by Diana Whitney (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
34. WOVEN: I Have Never Invited Him Home by Giedre Pavalkyte (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
35. WOVEN: In Defense of Sound by Chelsea Dingman (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
36. An Illicit Affair by Grace Segran (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
37. WOVEN: Giving Up the Ghost by Stacy Jane Grover (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
38. House Hunting by Helga Berliner Weinbach (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
39. The Talking Cure: Thou Mayest by CL Young (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
40. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma: A Feminist Film by Leslie Simon (Film)
41. Hunt A Killer, Earthbreak, and Empty Faces: Escapism for the Post-Truth Era by Byron Alexander Campbell (Games)
42. If You Jump Into My Arms I Will Catch You by Miriam Feldman (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
43. Get Me To The Purple Onion On Time by Joel Gion (Music)
44. On Not Becoming a Bishop by The Rev. Elizabeth Felicetti (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
45. Eating My Grief by Courtney Cook (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
46. Mini-Syllabus: Co-Dependencies: Affected Bodies & the Languages of Personhood by Janice Lee (Syllabus)
47. September 11 by David James (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
48. WOVEN: We Pay by Heather Siegel (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
49. The Talking Cure: Of Zombies, Wolves, Girls, and Holes by Kristen E. Nelson (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
50. Foster Care: Sister Lives by Sandra LeDuc (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
And, our most popular posts ever, since launching in 2014:
(not including pieces listed above or our Where to Submit / Small Press / Best of Year Lists)
1. WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major by Seo-Young Chu (Creative Nonfiction)
2. 25 Very Literary Songs (List / Music)
3. The Essential Albums of Vaporwave by Giacomo Lee (Music)
4. Autobiography of a Tree by Annie Wenstrup (Creative Nonfiction)
5. ON MARJORIE PERLOFF by Fred Moten (Culture / Opinion)
6. Some Thoughts on The Signal by Janice Lee (Film / Review)
7. If You Hear Something Say Something, Or If You’re Not At The Table You’re On The Menu by Jen Hofer (Culture / Opinion)
8. 21 Women Writers From Before 1500 That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (List)
9. D&D with Entropy: Lost Mine of Phandelver – Part One by Edward J Rathke (Board Games / Conversation)
10. The Poetics of Spaces: Outer Space by Janice Lee (Creative Nonfiction)
11. 30 Years of Ghibli: Princess Mononoke by Edward J Rathke (Film / Review)
12. Spell to Summon the Spirit of Cameron Parsons by Amanda Yates Garcia (Art / Occult)
13. 30 Years of Ghibli: Laputa: Castle in the Sky by Edward J Rathke (Film)
14. 20 Literary Memes (List)
15. 25 Novels On Failure by Janice Lee (List)
16. 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 / Opinion)
17. The House is On Fire: Race, Gentrification, Houston and the de Menil Family Legacy by John Pluecker (Current Events)
18. Bird Box by Josh Malerman by Richard Thomas (Review)
19. My Body’s Bad Glue by Carolyn Zaikowski (Creative Nonfiction)
20. We’ve All Always Been Lichens: Donna Haraway, the Cthulhucene, and the Capitalocene by Leif Haven (Sci Fi / Literature)
21. On Dust by Edward J Rathke (Art)
22. Awaiting Trial by Olowogboyega Olumuyiwa (Creative Nonfiction/Essay)
23. 16-bit era JRPGs you should have played, but probably didn’t by Emily Lee (List / Video Games)
24. Cosmopolitan Moonshine: The SoGoth Populism of the Drive-By Truckers, Part One by Jason Gubbels (Literature / Music)
25. The Books That Have Devastated Us (List)
26. I Was a Twelve Year Old Priestess in the Occult, or so I Was Made to Believe by Nancy Hightower (Creative Nonfiction)
27. Prose as Music: The Use of Language and Story Structure in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” by Suzzanna Matthews-Amanzio (Music)
28. ON KAWARA IS STILL ALIVE by Leif Haven (Art)
29. The Walking Dead Season 2: A bittersweet farewell to Clementine and proper conclusions. by Emily Lee (Video Games)
30. Bruce Wayne is the Alter Ego, Not Batman by Isaac Jon Enen (Comics)
