“It’s about a man that is ‘apart from,’ at the beginning; he becomes a part of only at the end. The premise of it was that what’s broken is healed…
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Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria Melville House, May 2019 336 pages / pre-order: Amazon Unlike a hyper-fictionalized coming-of-age tale where the narrator discovers they have some magical power or…
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[Author’s Note: In the coming weeks I will be sharing other lists composed by not only me but voices I know from the Bay Area, Chicago, Seattle, New York City…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayLiteracy Narrative: Of Cider Jugs and Sunbeams: Wordsworthian Reflections on Autobiography and Memory
In Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude—one of the great memory-epics, along with Proust’s—there is a section describing the process of recollection that speaks to me with particular relevance right now.…
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There’s no exaggeration when I say that Kehlani is one of the best R&B artists of this time. No matter if she’s releasing her own music or featuring on a…
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#AWP19 is happening soon. This this year, it’s going to be a big one. Not only are we expecting a particularly large crowd this year (everyone seems to be excited…
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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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* * * A poem should have birds. All of them are mimics, opera singers, warriors. Pure spirit. From my deck I see a dove pace circles around a pit…
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It had become the norm watching Cleve nod off. It was usually in the middle of doing something: smoking a cigarette, eating, assembling a model airplane. When he awoke, his…
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When a person at a family event asks me what I like to do in my spare time, and I say “cook,” my mother invariably chimes in with this story…
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Giving Godhead by Dylan Krieger Delete Press, February 2017 82 pages / Amazon / Delete Serenade by Brooke Ellsworth Octopus Books, November 2017 109 pages / Amazon / Octopus …
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one of the more remarkable things about bjork, and radiohead too, is the way the music embeds a desire for itself the longer it goes. if at first the songs…
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Backwoods Payback – Future Slum (2018) There’s something burning in the bottom of the coffee pot at the Jonestown Survivors support meetings. * * * Lucinda Williams –…
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In the third season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto has expertly circumnavigated the bait-and-switch prerogatives we’ve come to expect with the genre of true crime; he’s played on our perverse…