Meta Our Favorite Freelance Pieces of 2015
Some of our favorite pieces published this year on The Toast.
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Food To Fill an Emptiness: Tradition, Food, and the Holidays
Kayla Whaley on losing the ability to eat just in time for the holidays.
Books Signs That You Are Writing the Next Bestselling Thriller Aimed at Women
Everyone is an unreliable narrator.
Books At the Corner of the Real and the Imagined: On Literary Geography
Rebecca Turkewitz explores her own and other readers' fascination with the real places in which fictional literary works are set.
Personal Stories Jewel Key: Friendship and Escape in the Everglades
"There will be ocean in your eyes and summer on your skin and your mouth will pucker for days, pickled from saltwater."
Writing Adrift in the Maghreb: Finding Peace in Discontent
Carla Bruce on travel, American blackness abroad, and being unsettled.
Politics A Bollywood Madonna Covers Album and the Sound of Our Reparations
"The West has a storied history of taking from India": Rohin Guha on the legacy of occupation, the co-opting of culture, and Alisha Chinai's 'Madonna.'
Writing Here Is What’s Wrong With Kylie Jenner’s Wheelchair Photo
Kayla Whaley on why the Kylie Jenner wheelchair pic in Interview Magazine bothers her.
Writing In The City of Martyrs: A Short Story
A short story by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam.
Writing Selling Books in Cold Places
Zoe Selengut on her time in the rare and used bookselling industry, as well as her mother's upbringing in a little-known religious sect.
Writing Sexual Overtures From An Alien Unfamiliar With The Human Body
*Zapp Brannigan voice* Erotic!
Writing Space Babe Fantasies: On Geoff Marcy and Sexism in Science and Sci-Fi
Aya de Leon on astronomer Geoff Marcy, sexual harassment in science, and sexist tropes in sci-fi literature.
Humor What Is Society Even Doing To Me Right Now?
I mean!
Writing The Old Back and Forth: A Short Story
A new short story by Ashley Burnett.
Relationships This Time Last Year: On Intimacy, Suicidality, and Abuse
"This time last year I called the cops on my husband."
