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Just One More Hot Dog

Every time I eat a hot dog, the little voice in the back of my head questions my feeling of necessity to ingest this...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

A Calculus of Its Own

The first thing I notice as I wake up is that my left hand has fallen asleep, pinned under the undulating ribcage of my...

The Truth’s The Truth

The Myth As a child, I was told that all four of my grandparents died before I was born. Stories prevailed: Bubbe Faygie, on Mom’s...

The Trouble with Danish Happiness

In the summer of 2021, each day for two weeks, I drove my 13-year-old son 30 minutes north of our suburban Boston home to...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Mount Hunger

First, hike two miles up the mountain to reach cell service. You need to feel the strain in your muscles, the challenge. Driving into...

Downstream Benefits

I. Deep Dive Around nine on a cold Tuesday morning in March, my wife, Maggie, is already up and showering, so I figure it’s one...

The Deep End

Broken Horses

Salò

This Place

This place is perfectly undramatic. The house yellow-walled, clean, not too loud. He is perfectly undramatic. His shirts, all different shades of extra-soft Patagonia blue, tight across his...

Advice

Ask Annie: How Writers Should Read

Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...

Further Reading