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French Girl by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Dear Jesse Lee Kercheval, When I was mere three feet tall and unaware of the world, my parents bought our family the Nintendo Wii. As...

The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer

Dear J.R. Moehringer, As a teenager, I was terrified of drinking alcohol. My parents told me stories of peerswho failed school, cars that crashed, and...

Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs

Dear Michael Kleber-Diggs, I’m not good at growing things. My Venus flytrap died in less than a month. I set down my potted Spider Plant...

If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays by Jill Christman

Dear Jill Christman,  I’m running again. Small distances before the dark horizon, steady breathing below gray skies. I still have tendonitis, inflammation of the tendons...

I | I by Katherine Indermaur

It’s early morning. December. The light hits the snow and refracts back to the sky. The snow, a mirrored surface. A cold front from...

Let Me Count The Ways by Tomás Q. Morín

A comic review of Let Me Count the Ways

The Night Divers by Melanie McCabe

Dear Melanie McCabe, The best way to describe this book might be to borrow your words. “I remember our days, fanned before me like a deck...

The Kissing of Kissing by Hannah Emerson

Dear Hannah Emerson, I spent the twelfth summer of my life on a sailboat. It was a rinky dink thing. The captain’s name was Randolph....

Dark Tourist by Hasanthika Sirisena

Dear Hasanthika Sirisena, From the opening essay of Dark Tourist, I felt the way I did the first time I played Bloody Mary in the...

Want Me by Tracy Clark-Flory

Dear Tracy Clark-Flory, In the years before reading your book Want Me, I struggled with an ineffable confusion around the role sex has played in...

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