We can try to perform our inner lives, but we can’t actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all love the whiff of authenticity, and the more mediated our culture feels, the more we crave it, but we can’t actually give it away. We cannot actually break through the barrier of our individual aloneness.
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This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
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Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
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There is a cloudy line between noise and sound, routine and ritual.
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In Midnight in Cairo, the lives of the enterprising divas are interlinked.
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Zauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
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Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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Kevin Simmonds discusses his new collection, THE MONSTER I AM TODAY.
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There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
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Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
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A week before our reception, three days married, I beckon Peter to come listen to the song I’ve chosen for our first dance.
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Threa Almontaser discusses her debut collection, THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN.
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“Poetry is a mode of thinking through things that I can’t really articulate.”
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Lauren Hough discusses her debut essay collection, LEAVING ISN’T THE HARDEST THING.
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Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
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I wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
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Roberto Carlos Garcia discusses his third poetry collection, [ELEGIES].
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Erin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
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For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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You just have to sink into the music and let it wash over you.
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The clash of opinions about music is music itself.
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“The fact is we’re all living part of one long song.”
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Sarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
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Jenny Hval discusses her new novel, GIRLS AGAINST GOD.
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Even though I’ve only had my 12-string for two years, this is my favorite guitar.
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Sumita Chakraborty discusses her debut collection, ARROW.
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I had to admit that for a businessman, he was flexible.
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Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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My parents told me, “This is a special one for the queen.”
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