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Candy from Strangers: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan

  • Liz Button
  • April 6, 2022
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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The Past Is All We Have: André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis

  • Sukhada Tatke
  • July 14, 2021
Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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Interestingness Is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell

  • Beth Ward
  • February 14, 2020
Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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The Proustian Wilbur Bud

  • Caralyn Green
  • January 16, 2020
We all will have lost something in the forgetting.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • August 14, 2019
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Past Is Living: Jennifer Militello’s Knock Wood

  • Tania Pabón Acosta
  • July 17, 2019
Militello chooses cadence over chronology to show how moments flow into each other and through us.
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Writing That Hurts: On Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemon

  • Martha Park
  • March 28, 2019
Was I ready to read this book, now? After all this time?
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • October 31, 2018
A weekly roundup of essays we're reading online!
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The Further Adventures of The Wright Bros. and Their Incredible Time Machine

  • Brandon Hicks
  • August 19, 2018
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The Wright Bros. & Their Incredible Time Machine

  • Brandon Hicks
  • March 25, 2018
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Inherited Jeans

  • Brandon Hicks
  • January 28, 2018
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My Weekend with the Harakakukua

  • Brandon Hicks
  • June 25, 2017
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