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Image Credit: Holly Birtles, C1 Monsters Isle of Grain, Digital c-type print (2020)    hollybirtles.com You should not bother to read this. You should likely close this book, and put it…

Stone Cold Plumbers  During the first week of the second month at our new house, the sewer line busted. We were forced to use the bathroom at a nearby Dunkin…

MORE THAN NOT-SWEEPING Behind us there were sand dunes, and on the sand dunes were tufts of brown grass which made me think of those almost-bald men who thought that…

My brother is a superstar. Dad says I could learn a thing or two from him. He says if I stop giving every sad sack I meet a hand-carved spoon,…

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Grow Up On the dating app Colin told you he does yoga at an Episcopalian church. You don’t know much about Episcopalians, except that Charlotte on Sex and the City…

I should not have been surprised when the man sitting next to me on the subway started to lean over my shoulder and read the essays I was grading for…

My dad had patients. They were crazy, and they used to come over to the house. My dad would see them in his study. Actually it was a kitchen. A…

I believe very strongly in the mission of the small presses. Far beyond the froth of commercial publishers, independent and small presses are largely where literature is born and lives.

Our aesthetic focus has always been on creating handmade, unique publications which, in their format, do justice to the writing published in them.

In the Garden of the Bats I wanted to prove to the neighbors that I had pizzazz, so I went ahead and built a garden of night-blooming flowers. With the…

Whack! I crimp cable in a computer factory. Never successfully. No matter how hard I try to master crimp connection, the inspector calls me back and asks if I know…

There’s no such thing as nonfiction. This might seem like the title of yet another essay on the merits of essayistic writing as its own genre and not just a…

Dayo looked towards the train terminal and thought of all the ways he could die right now. Jumping in front of it, or stampeded by even-toed pouch animals—let’s call them…