This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. Infernal by Tyehimba Jess There is a riot I fit into, a place I fled called the Motor City. It owns a story old and forsaken as the furnaces of Packard Plant, as creased as the palm […]
Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet: Michelle Reale and Heather Fowler
March 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. “Chiarascuro” by Michelle Reale No one was awake when it happened Not even me, whose eyes were gaping Yet unseeing, unbelieving. Forget the young ones Who longed for reassurance There were limitations a mile long and a […]
Colin Dickey’s The Canny Valley: Social Memoir
March 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Colin Dickey’s The Canny Valley. To go to the column page, please click here. There’s nothing more disposable, more abject, more forgettable, than an Internet meme. They flash up in an instant, captivate instantly, but are inevitably fleeting, and after a few weeks they’re detritus, cast off, barely remembered. I’d wager, […]
Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet: David Tomaloff and Mary Stone Dockery
February 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. What I Know About Being Alone by Mary Stone Dockery Yes, there is a soreness to the naked creature I have become. Nowhere to point my hips, she says: A body still exists whether it is seen […]
Camille Griep’s Our House: Give Me Back My Dress
January 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Camille Griep’s Our House. To go to the column page, please click here. “Find me, save me, give me back my dress. How dare you write me when you cannot confess” —Venus Hum “Give Me Back My Dress” When Venus Hum released “Give Me Back My Dress,” in 2008, it […]
Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet: Robert Vaughan and Meg Tuite
January 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Duet. To go to the column page, please click here. “The Lost and Erasable Parts of Us” by Robert Vaughan I moved into a basement apartment. The first thing to go was my sense of smell. Whether by cognitive choice or simply chance, everything smelled like Cheetos. […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “Tell Me a Mitzi”
January 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. A friend tells me she’s taking a writing class with Lore Segal. How is it? I ask. We are sitting around my kitchen table. There is tea, etc. As you might imagine, she […]
Margaret LaFleur’s Travel By: Landmarks
December 31, 2012 by 1 Comment
This is the latest in Margaret LaFleur’s Travel By. To go to the column page, please click here. The sky was grey and overcast. It was probably early afternoon. I had been crying for an hour or so in an ugly, unwelcome sort of way. My throat was sore and I could still feel the […]
Camille Griep’s Our House: Superhuman
December 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Camille Griep’s Our House. To go to the column page, please click here. “How glad I am to be superhuman.” — Gus Gus, “Superhuman” In 1999, Icelandic electronica collective released and album called “This is Normal.” I found them via an online music service and even though they’re what might […]
“Happy Holidays” by Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet
December 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. There wasn’t a question of going or not going. Sally was committed to her career. The social end of it, no matter how heinous, was just a part of the job. Anyone in advertising knew the deal. […]
