Beauty My Grandmother, the Time Traveler
On the author's grandmother, and how dementia has made her world larger, not smaller.
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Writing Nice Guys
"Nice Guys," Vanessa Willoughby's latest piece of short fiction.
Books On Joan Chase’s During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Meghan O'Rourke provides an introduction to Joan Chase's recently re-released 1983 novel "During the Reign of the Queen of Persia."
History Descartes Goes To Stockholm To Teach Queen Christina Philosophy At Half-Past Five In The Morning, And The Early Rising Kills Him
A Short Story In Which Descartes Goes To Stockholm To Teach Queen Christina Philosophy At Half-Past Five In The Morning, And The Early Rising Kills Him.
Sex Erotica Written By An Alien Pretending Not To Be Horrified By The Human Body
An alien is forced to write human erotica, for some reason.
Writing Don’t Go Anywhere. This Was NPR
This was NPR. You were listening.
Writing Read This With That: A Bunch of Unicorns
Ester Bloom is back, and she knows what you should read next.
Health Seven Hospital Vignettes
Rachel Marcy tells seven brief stories about the time she has spent in hospital.
Family Claudia’s Dress: About My Mother
Mary J. Breen, on her mother's favourite dress, and the life it tells us about.
Books “A Bite Is Always Worse”: Nine Perfect Sentences by Lorrie Moore
Anthony Strain explores the genius of Lorrie Moore by looking at some of her most beautiful individual sentences.
Writing “Pretty Dead Girl Takes a Break”: A Short Story
A short story from the perspective of the pretty dead girl you may have seen in recent hourlong dramas.
Race Lost and Found
"Lost and Found," a short story by Vanessa Willoughby.
Art The Other Comic Book Guys
David Goldberg, on collaborating on a feminist comic book with an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate.
Writing Goodbye to All That: A Scary Short Story
Here is a creepy little short story about murder.
Books An Interview With Rachel Shukert: YA, Writing, and Old Hollywood
Nicole Cliffe talks with the very talented Rachel Shukert about her books, including, COINCIDENTALLY, the new one that came out this very week!
