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The Veiled Passion of Stephen Malkmus
His heart is not on display: It’s hidden below all these clever turns of phrase. Like a reverse Springsteen, holding the heart so gently under the sleeve you might barely see the outline of its beating center.
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Against Definivity in Writing Self & Nature: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman
“People are storytellers; we are editors; and nature is its own story. Telling the stories of nature is important. And I love when people do it. And I try to do it, but I also try to complicate it. I…
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Without Me, Where Would You Be?: Emma Copley Eisenberg’s “Fat Swim”
The “swiffer girl” in question is the subject of a two-girls-one-cup-esque viral video the narrator saw when she was young, where a pink-bikini-clad girl pleasures herself with the handle of a swiffer. Our unnamed narrator is both the gazer and…
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The Scale of a Man
Afterword I joined the crew of my first tall ship at seventeen. I know more than most the temptation to cast a vessel as the hero of the story, but it’s a lie. We name them, adorn them, and rely…
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Intimacy without Empathy & Exorcising the American Archive: A Conversation with Asale Angel-Ajani
In terms of thinking about craft and incorporating a different register to expand on the story, at times I would spiral and keep drilling down on the specificities of some details while taking the temperature of the story and feel…
