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Provincetown

Not a Blessing

The Dance

Dumpster Chicken

1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

The Long Run

“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Dinner Party

“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

Being a Host

"What are we looking at tonight, love?" The tarot reader asked me, their lips shiny with silver glitter. We were sitting at a round...

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

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...

Background Music

That first year in Cambridge with the junkies in the hall and no heat because your mother could only pay 90 dollars a month...

Letter to the Corinthians

Pines crowding the two lanes, then a bridge. From its timbers a smell of creosote. Riprap spilling down the steep banks to a swollen...

Food & Stuff

The Mulberry Box

Obits

Provincetown

Getting things right takes a while. It was the start of summer— a tall man was sandblasting his front door and sealing it down; floodlit trees made sorcerous sounds. I...
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Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading