Knowing that someone held a pen to write the words in a letter elevates the correspondence far beyond something sent via phone or computer. Handwriting makes us better writers, free of the suggestions of spelling and grammar apps, and it represents something of our personalities Recently, I found a letter my mum had written me […]
There had been concern when Jean and Emma got together that he was too serious, macho. I perhaps had it wrong that he had in art school driven to Chernobyl, uprooted a tree, and brought it back to France—a foreigner, I was capable of wild misunderstandings—but this was the story that had come to seem […]
“It begins like this” by Ala Fox The year I turned twelve, Mom and I talked a lot about death. Ever since my older sister, Shira, learned about the concept of infinity in school, she’s been scaring me with ideas about the universe and what happens when you die. I get terrified thinking about it, […]
Photo by David Klein on Unsplash The poet’s journey from writing verse to lyric essays to memoir is now a veritable pipeline, with more and more poets turning away from lines and stanzas to incorporate poetic techniques into prose. Poetry can often be rooted in memory already, using imagery and figurative language to explore the […]
Hello again! We’re back with another installment of Am I the Literary Asshole , an advice column that’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery and dunked inside a vodka tonic, much like a slice of fresh lime. Delightful! Today I’m coming to you live from the airport bar. Nothing says enjoy yourself to the fullest […]
As a young reader, I loved any book in which the characters created a home for themselves. The Boxcar Children moved into their boxcar, the kids in The Egypt Game created their own little world behind an antique shop, and I swooned. I can’t have been the only one, either, because so many great children’s […]
