Creative Nonfiction: Nightswimming by Jennifer Todhunter
Something with one foot in and one foot out of a no-man’s land of living.
Tag Archives: Essays
Nonfiction: Honey Man by John Julius Reel
Something told me not to go with him, but then he might take it wrong.
Survivor’s Guilt: An Interview with Artress Bethany White by Curtis Smith
Survivor’s Guilt is about recognizing that we are all accountable for our humanity and how we enact socially.
Essay: How to be Your Mother’s Best Daughter by Yasmina Din Madden
Don’t ask her what she means when she says you or your siblings ‘don’t have enough Asian.’
Nonfiction: Pubescent Still by A. Patrick
Maybe I still hadn’t gotten my period or anything, but surely this was proof: things were real and we were getting older.
Creative Nonfiction: Four Flash Pieces by Olivia Dunn
Rust climbs happily along these old parked VWs, in no real hurry to decompose. Vines full of unnecessary flowers unfurl at their own damn leisure.
Nonfiction: La Modification by Scott Dominic Carpenter
Paris changes, poet Charles Baudelaire wrote, faster than the human heart, and as far as my neighborhood is concerned, he was right. We’d hardly settled into our new digs before people starting tearing things up.
Review: Notes from My Phone by Michelle Junot (reviewed by Kristen Russell)
The entries are vulnerable, funny, and present a true to life mindset of a woman in her early twenties: A woman who deals with heartbreak, growing up, death, jobs, and the perils of a mouse-infested house.
Facing Her Fears: An Interview with Chelsey Clammer (interviewed by Jen Michalski)
an essay and writing can be whatever you make of it. There’s no “correct” way to write. There are no standards of what an essay has to have in it or needs to achieve in order to be considered an essay. That an essay is never in final draft form, even if it’s published.
Review: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (Ig Bookmarked Series) by Curtis Smith (reviewed by Michael Shattuck)
When he describes Slaughterhouse-Five’s themes in larger contexts, it’s like hearing that great English teacher you had delve into a exegesis with buoyant intensity.
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