Essay Collection
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View ArticleCat Is Art Spelled Wrong
Fourteen writers, all addressing not just our fascination with cat videos, but also how we decide what is good or bad art, or art at all; how taste develops, how that can change, and why we love or...
View ArticlePretentiousness
Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that’s making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone...
View ArticleUnbearable Splendor
Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over a subject, approaching it from positions of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Borges,...
View ArticleI’ll Tell You in Person
Flailing in jobs; failing at love; getting addicted and unaddicted to people, food, and drugs—I’ll Tell You in Person is a candid and captivating account of attempts at adulthood and all the...
View ArticleHow We Speak to One Another
The essay is rhizomatic: it builds off and shoots out conversations between us every time we read, reread, or write. When we speak back to others we amplify ourselves and get a foothold in an ongoing...
View ArticleAt the Lightning Field
Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field is four hundred stainless steel poles, positioned two hundred and twenty feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it...
View ArticleThe History of the Future
What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private...
View ArticleLittle Boxes: Twelve Writers on Television
Essays Cultural criticism for people who grew up with television as the primary background noise. August 8, 2017 6 x 9 | 208 Pages Trade Paper Thanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered...
View ArticleTell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same...
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View ArticleThe Little Free Library Book
What started as a simple idea to promote literacy and encourage community has become a movement. Little Free Libraries—front-yard book exchanges—now number more than 20,000 in 75 countries. This tells...
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