A look into how Greta Kline, the voice of Frankie Cosmos, expresses herself through her poetry-based music Photo courtesy of Frankie Cosmos’ website In an interview with the New York Times in 2018, Greta Kline, known by her stage name Frankie Cosmos, said, “There’s something about music you listen to in high school. When you […]
Photo by Julia Kadel on Unsplash Katya Apekina, author of critically acclaimed The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish , opens her newest novel, Mother Doll , with a nesting set of characters linked by familial ties and the weight of generational inheritance. Zhenia, a medical translator in Los Angeles, finds herself pregnant. Meanwhile, […]
I am walking along a shoreline. A shoreline is a place, a geography, where two elements—water and sand—meet. We call this place of meeting a line, but it is also the continual erasing of line. How water writes, erases, rewrites. Its own delineation of: the encounter. The shape of how these two realms meet a […]
I have a long and complicated relationship with superstitions. Being raised in an Italian family means you’re schooled early and often in the myriad ways to avoid bad luck, or worse. Never put a hat on a bed, always leave from the same door you entered, do not even think about passing a baby over […]
