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Everything Tastes Better in Winter

  • Lucia Iglesias
  • October 29, 2019
Perfection over pasta. Beauty over bread. The more it hurt, the better.
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Room to Roam: Talking with Karen Auvinen

  • Kristen A. Schmitt
  • June 14, 2019
Karen Auvinen discusses her debut memoir, ROUGH BEAUTY.
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Out of Order

  • Janet Buttenwieser
  • June 14, 2016
In summertime, a small group of white, middle-aged, well-educated men were obsessed with my ass.
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Breaking and Burning

  • Kathleen Buckley
  • May 16, 2016
They pin him down and I stick him. I am relentless. This disease is relentless. And I am so pissed off.
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The Girl Who Wanted to Fly

  • Marcelle Soviero
  • December 23, 2015
We handled almost everything differently, her way of seeing the world so different from mine. She wanted to fly; I wanted to stay on the ground.
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The Last Book I Loved: Solo Faces

  • Genevieve Hudson
  • September 9, 2015
Reading Solo Faces, I felt like I was peering into a life Matt and I once longed for, one I never entered completely.
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Against Everything

  • J.M. Gamble
  • September 2, 2014
The mountains of Alabama are small mountains—foothills, really—but they are mine like a sports team is mine—like a football game (which I have for so long been near but have not really, really seen) is mine—as in the phrase “We scored! We scored!”
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Life in a Yurt

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 15, 2014
In 2009, Molly Caro May decided to move to Montana with her husband. They settled into a handmade yurt in which the couple has now lived for more than five…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • December 9, 2013
The important questions: what can we learn about a whale from its earwax? Can we just talk about this US spy rocket logo for a second? In 1938, a scientist…
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