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Spotlight: “Dating App Boys”

  • Meg Richardson
  • December 10, 2019
Don't those dating apps make you sad sometimes?
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Spotlight: “God Circle”

  • Courtney Cook
  • November 5, 2019
I needed to find my God Circle.
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Spotlight: “The Curse”

  • Aubrey Hirsch
  • October 2, 2019
Better your dreams not be too big.
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Spotlight: “Woofy Hits a Home Run”

  • Joyanna M and Lily Bell
  • August 13, 2019
Girls can't play baseball... and Woofy was just a girl.
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Spotlight: “I Met Prince Once”

  • Tatiana Ryckman
  • June 4, 2019
While struggling with a severe bout of depression I found myself inexplicably drawn to Prince’s music.
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Spotlight: “Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene and Cell Decay”

  • R. Claire Stephens
  • May 21, 2019
Maybe that's what we should teach in schools.
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Spotlight: “As Before, So Behind (redux)”

  • Ted Closson
  • February 26, 2019
What follows is an attempt to speak to the living, as well as the dead.
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Spotlight: “Roving Woman”

  • Suny Gao
  • January 8, 2019
How sad, sure, but also how haunting, thrilling, lovely, and sweet.
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet

  • Brandon Hicks
  • December 11, 2018
In 1999 I was five. I was really just discovering comics for the first time—mostly by reading Spiderman.
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Spotlight: “My Dead Friend’s Favorite Book”

  • Tessa Hulls
  • December 4, 2018
Whenever I need to be close to Chelsea and the lessons she taught me, all I have to do is read.
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Spotlight: “DREAMS: A Pep Talk for Couples”

  • Caits Meissner
  • November 1, 2018
I sit so still a bird could perch on my nose.
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Spotlight: “The Crone’s Guide to Menopause”

  • Ruth Halpern
  • August 14, 2018
The sunlit meadow is boring. We leave it behind.
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