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March 30, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Notes on Our Ghost: or, Strangers of All Distances

Aaron Tomey

While trying to sleep, I abandon the sex fantasies and imagine the feeling of being held by another. They’re soft and accepting and faceless, one of the pillow-folk from the Ringling Museum.

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March 28, 2025 | Sports

Unathletic Incident

Alex Avakiantz

Before that glorious year, I was relegated to the “husky” section, which is clothing not for dogs but overweight children.

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March 28, 2025 | Sports

MARCH MADNESS, 2019: Author as Capitalistic Commodity

Elizabeth Ellen

"There are no actual pages. They are hollow. They are just for show. I think how perfect that is, how much of the literary world is just for show. Hollow. Superficial. More often than not it doesn’t matter the words inside, only the name on the book, the book as an object, the author as object. Author as persona. Author as capitalistic commodity. Minor celebrity. A name to drop at a New York City party."

 

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March 27, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Selen Ozturk

It was bad today.

I stood in Trader Joe’s two hours

March 27, 2025 |

Hustled & Kidnapped in the Armpit of America

Anna Krivolapova discusses voice.

March 26, 2025 | Fiction

Tonight

Waseem Mainuddin

Harry forgot the rest of last night’s monologue, and just saw the crowd laughing. Applause was okay if it was accompanied by laughter, he just didn’t want to ask for claps. But laughs? In this world, people need to laugh.

March 25, 2025 | Book Review

Nell Zink's Sister Europe

Klara Feenstra

But in this Freudian foreshadowing, Toto doesn’t quite realize that he’s far from Catholic school, with its rules and fall-in-line rigidity.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Legs Get Led Astray

Chloe Caldwell

“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”

Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD