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Sightings

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The Saturday Shift

I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

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...

Relationship, Redacted

For as long as I can remember, you reminisced. About life during World War II, about seeing Sinatra with your friends at the Brooklyn...

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...

One Good Horse

Author's Note: "One Good Horse" is a nostalgic piece of creative nonfiction, told in a first-person narrative and stylized in the voice of an...

Joy

With the pretense of looking around the interior, Joy Sweetland turns away to hide how she curls her fingers properly and types on her...

HADAKA NO GENGO NOCTURNE

"naked language" (Japanese)   the skin on a mango the sparkle of seeing the horizon destroy everything under its hem & earth become sky ++++++++++++we are all dying of summer months...

Sightings

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The Adjunct

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