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What Forced My Father to Buy Our First TV?
Give us a movie with a good fight, a wild spectacle of flying fists and stylized blood, and we were in heaven. Looking back, it wasn’t just about the action. It was a psychological displacement, a two-hour escape from a…
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If You Love That Lady
We were, I thought, as Karl Barth said about Mozart’s music, drawing weight and significancefrom the yes at our center that overpowered and contained a no.A bow rubbed against an ancient string. Thunder caught between atmosphere and earth, windows struck…
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Wolf Spiders
At the end of the week my grandma came and got me. I wasn’t really close to my grandma, because she lived two states away in Arizona, but Arizona was two states away from my dad, so when she asked…
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Vanlife at the End of the World
I expected Wells to launch into an inspirational speech about the nomadic life, one that—like his many YouTube monologues or his appearance in Nomadland—affirmed our collective decision to abandon the rat race for a more fulfilling life on the road.…
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Reaching Toward the Memory of Past Stories: A Conversation with Paul Yoon
I find revising and editing my favorite part of writing. The first draft is the most grueling, horrible part for me; I don’t know what I’m doing and just trust something’s there. But then, once you’ve got something with a…
