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On Going Home: An Ode to Joan Didion from the Safety of My Couch
In an essay I regularly come back to, Joan Didion writes about her definition of home, the family that you fall back on, the family you can’t stand, the hot…
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Changing and Waiting for It to Hurt: Love Letter to My Sophomore Year
Finishing sophomore year was weirdly a punch in the gut. Really, it makes no sense, considering I went through so much of the last eight months on autopilot, waiting passively…
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What’s Private Is Public: Drawing the Ethical Line as a Personal Essayist
To me, writing often means putting into words the otherwise unutterable—to take messy knots of feelings and unravel them into a series of articulate sentences, hoping they’ll strike a chord…
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Uninspired, Glum, Hopeless? Look No Further Than Modern Love
I fear that storytelling, in the most traditional sense, is dying. Perhaps it’s because I’ve grown up, or because I now devote my time to other types of entertainment, or…
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My Father and I
I was eight years old the only time I saw my father cry. This was when we still lived in the red brick apartment building. First unit, second floor. I…
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