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Girlhood by Melissa Febos

Dear Melissa, Early in 2020, I truly committed to being alone. I had recently accepted and embraced my queerness after spending the previous decade in...

Cooking For Her Eyes by Susan Uehara Rakstang

Dear Susan Uehara Rakstang, This book reminded me of a piece of theory written by Abrams called “The Speech of Things”¹. The piece introduces the...

The Full Moon Herald by Phyllis Klein

Dear Phyllis Klein,  In the past I participated in Model United Nations (MUN), a debate team where participants represented a country in a mock debate...

Disparates by Patrick Madden

Dear Patrick Madden, You have written a collection of essays so enjoyable that, instead of relegating it to my nightstand for evening reading, I carried...

Fierce Aria by Maxima Kahn

Dear Maxima Kahn, When wildfire smoke strangled the end of summer in a chokehold, shuttered my windows, and silenced the birds, I read your collection...

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

Dear Sarah M. Broom, We see a lot of big numbers here in the year 2020: 230,000 Americans lost to COVID-19 (with well over a...

How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

Dear Baratunde Thurston,  Growing up first-generation West Indian in the U.S. is a lot like being a ghost. A ghost lives in this shadowy, borderlands...

The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham

Dear J. Drew Lanham, I took ornithology with the CT state ornithologist Dr. Margaret Rubega. It was the first time I’d gathered with a group...

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Dear Kiese,  I damn near broke down in my class. In front of a bunch of twenty-year-olds in a private liberal arts college, seniors who...

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet

Dear Aja Monet, Last week I stood in a too-empty amphitheater next to a confederate statue in downtown Tampa for a vigil for Breonna Taylor,...

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