The Butter Run Rabbit Run: A Poem
The Butter presents a new poem by Romaissaa Benzizoune.
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The Butter Liner Notes: Grand Opening, Grand Closing
"I don’t think you can ever retire from art. You either do it or you don’t. And if you can’t do it here, you do it elsewhere."
The Butter Literary Ladies Cage Fight: The Divine Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle from A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY and Evie O’Neill from THE DIVINERS meet in the final installment of The Butter's Literary Ladies Cage Fight.
Meta Buttered This Week: Aug 22-28
“You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life” ― Julia Child
First of course, Roxane breaks the terrible news: The Butter is saying good-bye.
HUGE, teary thanks to all you brilliant Butter writers, so much butter to our bread. It's been a joy to read and publish your work. And to you readers for loving it all as much as we did.
The Butter A Buttery Farewell
When Nicole and Mallory approached me and invited me to contribute to The Toast, was absolutely thrilled. I recognized what an amazing opportunity it was, particularly as a woman of color, to be able to run an online publication where I had editorial freedom and the ability to pay writers.
It has been all joy to run The Butter. I was able to publish truly amazing writing filled with wit and heart, humor and intelligence. I worked with columnists that gave me insight into this wonderful world around us, living with a lover, raising a modern family, living with disability, the ways in which music can shape our lives, how beloved literary characters might throw down, and, of course, we had, at the end, a warm, wise advice column.
But now, alas, The Butter is coming to an end.
The Butter World of Wonder: Corpse Flower
Aimee Nezhukumatathil introduces you to the corpse flower in her final World of Wonder column for The Butter.
The Butter Liner Notes: Missing Afropunk
mensah demary's latest Liner Notes column for The Butter.
Advice Ask Bear: Be Glad in Love
Bear offers advice to a reader trying to decide between two lovers in the latest 'Ask Bear' column for The Butter.
Health The Waiting Room: Empire Got it Wrong
Kelly Davio's latest Waiting Room column for The Butter contrasts the reality of myasthenia gravis with the fiction advanced in the TV show 'Empire.'
The Butter A Conversation with Kendra Fortmeyer
Raised in a rustic house in the woods of North Carolina by parents who discouraged televisions and other such modern entertainments, Kendra Fortmeyer describes a “gorgeous childhood” complete with a story-telling grandfather who would type the tales she narrated to her dolls. Now a fiction editor for Broad! Magazine and recipient of an MFA from …
The Butter A History of Power: Fiction
"I stood in for a thousand ships and you hid behind and conducted them with your pinky finger until I was seduced or abducted (they are not so different)."
The Butter This Writer’s On Fire: Jess Zimmerman
A profile of this week's writer on fire, Jess Zimmerman.
The Butter Bodies Without Malice: A Short Story
The Butter presents a new short story by Terese Marie Mailhot.
LGBT Genesis
"I was nineteen and surrounded by rainbow banners. I heard the hymns of my past raised up not to the god of my childhood, but to something higher."
Health Episode
The author on her time in a psych ward.
