The Diary of Anaïs Nin While Binge-Watching Broad City
Season 1, Episodes 1–3Ah, to see New York, city of life and love. How I long for it, city of neurosis! But wherever are our heroines, Abbi and Ilana, on that phallic island of Manhattan? Astoria,...
View ArticlePaper Memories
At Medium, Melissa Mesku, founding editor of New Worker Magazine, writes about what it was like to sort through thirty years’ worth of journals, diaries, notes, and scraps of paper:Those handwritten...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Interview: Cristina García and Truong Tran
Cristina García and Truong Tran are two Bay Area-based authors. García has written six novels, edited collections of stories, taught at MFA programs around the country, and has been awarded a...
View ArticleWanted/Needed/Loved #13: Lucy Dacus’s Journals
I’m not the type of musician who writes songs that refer to real people or events in my life by name. But I think the practice of journaling has given me the capability of observing and reflecting on...
View ArticleA Very Great Scoundrel: The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume...
I’ve long felt drawn towards both the work and the life of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). The British Hopkins converted to Catholicism in 1866 and joined the Jesuit order of priests in 1868,...
View ArticleYou Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris
Reading David Sedaris’s Theft By Finding is like reading the liner notes for all your favorite essays. A collection of diary entries, written from 1977 to 2002, the book begins with Sedaris hitchhiking...
View ArticleThe Itch to Write: Talking with Courtney Maum
Traditionally, children’s voices haven’t been given a lot of import in historical fiction. If we were to trust much of the work out there, we could be led to believe that history was only experienced...
View ArticleFields of Light
My cousin Paul is a genius. He graduated from a special high school for geniuses when he was sixteen years old. Today, one of Paul’s projects is working for Google on the company’s virtual reality...
View ArticleWriting to Heal: Talking with Emilly Prado
Emilly Prado is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon. She is a first-and-a-half generation Chicana, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by a first-generation Mexican American and a...
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