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Love and Medicine
I was not always gentle with my body. I slept with older men, with sad men, with finance bros and community organizers. I liked the med students best, angry orthopedists-in-training and the fuckboys clawing their way to anesthesiology.
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“In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous”: A Conversation with John Green
Initially, I thought I was writing about what we exchange when we give aspects of our private lives to the public for attention, which is something that used to be a problem mostly for movie stars and now is a…
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Dinner Party at the End of the World
At the dinner party table, I looked toward my friend. She had also turned to her phone, where an endless compilation of rare Labubu unboxings played on the screen. I resisted the urge to tell her I hold a conspiracy…
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Literature as Linguistic Event: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
In all of my books, including Ply, I have paragraphs where time is suspended because there are no conjugated verbs—only infinitives and participles. I try to do it unobtrusively. If you don’t notice, that’s mission accomplished. You don’t have to…
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I Am Having a Breakdown
There is no margin of error or time for illness, which means if I slow down, the entire schedule—which is a well-oiled machine at this point—implodes. So any time someone is like, “Girl, you need to rest,” I want to…
