Unknown Pleasures, Luxury Poverty
Nicholas Grider02.16.16
Nicholas Grider examines the lines between poverty and luxury in the context of his having bought a pair of Beats headphones while on the verge of homelessness.
Sidepiece Blues
Andrea Lambert02.15.16
“Should the wife, the other, male sidepiece and I join together à la The Other Woman and seek some sort of misbegotten revenge? That sounds unlikely, fraught and nightmarish. I do not wish revenge. She has been honest with me. I am getting what I want out of the relationship, I think.”
Scars
Michelle Lyn King02.01.16
Michelle Lyn King surveys the emotional and physical effects carried behind the markings of eleven different kinds of scars.
Big Girls
Sara Finnerty08.31.15
A heartbreaking and beautifully crafted personal essay on motherhood, being big, and loving too much.
NO LO PUEDO CONTROLAR
Katie Burke06.29.15
A young woman finds parallels with the life of Selena Quintanilla in the midst of search for self and love.
72-Hour Hold
Michael du Plessis06.23.15
A haunting autobiographical essay by Michael du Plessis: “She said, Once you struggle, it’s all lost.”
Build Your Own Death Star
Alex Kalamaroff06.08.15
A personal essay about kid creativity, Legos, and the Death Star.
Bad Places
Dodie Bellamy06.03.15
An excerpt from Dodie Bellamy’s When the Sick Rule the World, coming this fall from Semiotext(e).
Blindness, Bats, and Belief As The Only Superpower We Need: On Daredevil and Beyond
Shoshana Seidman05.26.15
Shoshana Seidman explores the links between blindness, bats, belief, and the superhero Daredevil.
The Funeral Home
Josalyn Knapic11.05.14
The “home” of “funeral home” takes on new meaning in a contemplative new creative essay from Josalyn Knapic.
