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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Image Credit: Charlie Chaplin. Modern Times (1936). I was running on the promenade that lines Brooklyn along the bay of the New York harbor, which stretches from Gravesend to Bay…
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Image Credit: George Coletrain There’s nothing like being young, and leaving some place. —Bruce Springsteen There’s not a lot to love about being from New Jersey. There’s the…
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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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Here in this courtyard with its garden chairs, washing line, grass shooting feebly out of the ground, a patio for the semi-productive crazies, there is a line beaming through all…
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Photo via: Yitz Woolf — Ruth and Ibtisam hugging. Picture this. A Jewish mom in Jerusalem gets breast cancer and joins an Israeli-Palestinian breast cancer support group. She meets a Muslim…
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Square Wave by Mark de Silva Two Dollar Radio, 2016 376 pages – TDR / Amazon I teach composition to college freshmen who uniformly hate it. Sometimes it’s fun, but…
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Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the home, then, of Eckrich Meats. Martone ate sandwiches constructed with Eckrich cold cuts: Bologna, Old Fashioned Loaf, Olive Loaf, Honey Loaf,…
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On Writing by Charles Bukowski (edited by Abel Debritto) Ecco, 2015 224 pages – Ecco / Amazon On Writing by Charles Bukowski, edited by Abel Debritto, is a book Bukowski…
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Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors Amazon Publishing, 2015 270 pages – Amazon Process—as in “Could you tell us a bit about your writing process, please?”—is one of…
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Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher by Garret Keizer Metropolitan Books (Macmillan), 2014 320 pages – Macmillan / Amazon In 2011, Garret Keizer published an article in Harper’s…
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We were convinced that some of the best writing from writers we knew happened outside of their normal writing forms and practices, e.g., in conversation, in emails, in rants while driving, etc. We then began commissioning these works as they occurred or as we encountered them, and we published them as our Tract Series of pamphlets.
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Shit. I don’t want to be the one to bring this up, but I have to. We all cheat in some way—whether it’s finding inspiration from the indexes of poetry…
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Two-headed feelings each have their own brains, which is the characteristic that differentiates them from two-faced feelings. The condition of two-headedness in feelings is most often caused by a developmental…
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