This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreA weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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...moreApples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
...more“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”
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...moreI won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
...more“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
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...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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...moreSavannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreOne thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren’t as safe.
...moreBryson Tiller made himself known in 2015, when, hailing from the streets of Louisville, KY, the then-twenty-two-year-old singer, rapper, and songwriter posted his debut single “Don’t” on his Soundcloud page, introducing a new style that blends “the urgency of trap music with the smoother sound of alternative R&B.” Subsequently, Tiller released his first album, T R A P […]
...more“Unofficial History” takes place on a 21st-century Kentucky farm, yet the landscape of the Holocaust is nearer than it might seem.
...moreI knew that just as the country was reverting, so was I. Every face now seemed a potential enemy and these were feelings I had not felt in almost twenty years.
...moreThomas Merton, the most prominent Catholic monk of the 20th century, famously left the world to live a cloistered life at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemini in rural Kentucky, taking vows and becoming Father Louis. As many will recall, he described his journey to the cloister in one of the century’s masterpieces of memoir, The […]
...moreI’m a performer, and in hard times, this job gets harder. I make music when the nation mourns, and my music can sound like hope.
...moreJ.D. Vance talks about his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the perils of upward mobility, and never forgetting where you come from.
...more“Distance” is part of a growing collection of graphic essays in which AshleyRose Sullivan tries to make sense of her oddball family history by looking at it through the lens of popular culture.
...moreThis stuff is my favorite drink in the world, but there’s a lot more to it than that.
...moreInternationally recognized percussionist, composer, sound designer, and audio archivist Tim Barnes talks with Allyson McCabe about how his musical career has developed and changed, and what he’s up to now.
...moreTania James discusses her most recent novel, The Tusk That Did the Damage, the challenges of writing an elephant narrator, and the moment when she knew she could be a writer.
...moreManuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
...moreWe will never be an exclamation point, an ellipses, a question mark. We must all leave with this: a period—solid, and utterly irrefutable.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his debut novel, What Belongs to You, crossing boundaries, language as defense, and the queer tradition of novel writing that blurs boundaries between fiction and essay and autobiography.
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