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An Interview with Erin Khar
Disclaimer: This interview discusses addiction and may be hard for some to read. Erin Khar offers anecdotal advice that is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Erin Khar’s debut memoir, Strung […]
Works of Caitlin Du
Caitlin was born and raised in Beijing, China. In 2018, her work was exhibited in the Metamorphosis Charity Exhibition in the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 art district. Caitlin moved to New York City […]
“In Books, as in Confessionals, Only the Unspeakable Is Worth Confessing”
Edoardo Albinati’s first novel to be translated into English has been described by some as semi-autobiographical or “autofiction”—though the author has insisted in one of only two previously printed interviews in English that the narrator of “The Catholic School” who shares his name is “not autobiographically [him].” This interview, translated by Dave Johnson, aims not to uncover the biography of the author Edoardo Albinati, but rather to dive deeper still into the world of his self-named narrator.
Directed by Pennacky
It was 8 a.m. on Sunday in Brooklyn, and while my translator, Kana Motojima, and I groggily boiled water for our tea, Kenichiro “Ken” Tanaka was taking a quick 10 p.m. break at a shared […]
Golden State: The Alchemy of a Reluctant Memoirist
“The struggle with writing all the time is that you, occasionally, have to go to unimaginable places.”
Touching My Face
My mom wants me to stop touching my face because my hands are dirty, and I’ll break out, but I love touching my face.
Bill of Rights Poem
My cries for equality cannot be silenced
Works of Annie Fay Meitchik
Annie Fay Meitchik is an artist, blogger, and writer based in Southern California graduating from The New School this spring with her BA in Creative Writing. Annie plans to pursue a career at the intersection […]
Interview With a Sugar Baby
Anna* is a woman in her mid-twenties who is studying for her Master’s degree in New York City at an Ivy League University. When she was denied financial aid, she sought out alternative methods to pay for school. She signed up for a website that focuses on sugar dating, where her company is valued by an exchange of an allowance or gifts. In this interview, we discuss her personal life, her lifestyle, and her opinion on sugaring.
Heaven Help Us, Heaven Forgive Us
Like any young family, some conversations had to be foregone. Some battles, forfeited.
No Dog Could Hunt You Like I Could
Kiss by kiss/I build you
Are We There Yet?
Jenny Offill’s casually devastating new novel “Weather” is a lovely, quietly ticking timebomb.
Good Talk: A Conversation with Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, and long-listed for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize.
Look, Don’t Touch
If you find that you are the type of person who is constantly at war with these two alternating states of self—where obligations can be ditched at a moment’s notice, or begrudgingly followed through—then you will feel right at home in the world of “Imaginary Museums” by Nicolette Polek.
Poetry by Aubri McCarter
My mother wanted things.
Impotence
The aging bad boy of French letters’ latest outing exhausts nearly half its word count rehashing tired material. Then, when an antidepressant finally renders his narrator impotent, it picks up.
Poetry by Sébastien Bachand
The wind pulls a crystal from my eye
Contents of Dead People’s Pockets
The section for cash held a Trojan condom, but when his wife came to claim the contents of her dead husband’s pants, she said he’d had a vasectomy.