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The Frozen Cat

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 2, 2021
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Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain

  • Shreya Vikram
  • February 9, 2021
Hurting heightened everything, both within and without it.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff

  • Marissa Korbel
  • June 5, 2019
Jennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN.
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Tiamat on the Treadmill

  • Caitlin Dwyer
  • December 6, 2018
The gym is a place where the body is primary.
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Thick and Thin

  • Noley Reid
  • January 15, 2018
Today is not the day I can eat like a normal person and not tomorrow either. But maybe the day after that or the next one after.
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Trail’s End

  • Janet Banks
  • October 4, 2016
“This must be where we meander,” I said with relief. “How far do you think we’ve come?”
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  • Voices on Addiction

Voices on Addiction: The Ghost Inside

  • Kim Derby
  • September 9, 2016
But was I an alcoholic? The idea had never crossed my mind. The more I reflected on it, the less I understood.
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The Middle Season

  • Lee Martin
  • September 7, 2016
My doctor told me to begin with adding five minutes to my morning walk. During those five minutes, I recalled the life I’d once had—that intense life that ambition gave me—and the man I’d once been.
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Fiction Fitness

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 12, 2016
In Palmetto Landing, the men’s bodies existed in inverse proportion to those of their wives. Ahead of the publication of her much anticipated collection Difficult Women, out in January 2017, you can…
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Wild, Salty Body of Water

  • Christine Schrum
  • May 23, 2016
Sometimes, thick clouds roll in like doubts, and the god-like giants are obscured to the point where I almost swear they never existed. Other days, there’s no questioning their presence.
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Eating in Purgatory

  • Jenne Knight
  • April 21, 2016
I always say the last time was the last time, and I always mean it, but I’m scared I’ll relapse again.
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Writers and Running

  • Lyz Lenz
  • November 12, 2015
Nick Ripatrazone on why writers need to run: While on sabbatical in London in 1972, a homesick Oates began running “compulsively; not as a respite for the intensity of writing…
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