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Wild Are the Winds to Meet You
On September 18th, the night Scotland voted on its independence from the UK, I was standing on the porch of a Civil War-era mansion after a reading. It was storming.
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City Resolution
Author Chris Colin finally brought his daughter to New York, after years and years away, and it may as well have been a new city: I began seeing grand indifference everywhere. The immigrant struggles against waves of economic indifference. The chaos…
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Finding Home
Growing up all over the place makes you skilled at adapting, but it also makes you hungry to belong, something that in part motivates my writing: carving out a space I know, trying to understand what I’m witnessing around me.…
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On Loving and Leaving New York: Home
Driving down Second Avenue, we saw the usuals: skater kids and college students, queens and models and junkies. My heart hurt more and more. The landmarks of my most troubled memories now filled my heart with longing. I even missed…
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The Unmade House
We never moved. We just faded out of the house. Let me clarify what I mean when I say “we”…
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Memory and Work
“I feel totally curious and alive and in control. And almost… magnificent, when I write.” The Guardian converses with Toni Morrison about writing from within, the death of her son, her forthcoming novel Home, and more.
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All of Us, Anchored in Place
“…isn’t it strange, I mean, this thing about being a human being breathing and thinking and sensing and dwelling always, always, in a place?” This essay in the Millions is all about place and home—how all aspects of living occurs…
