Frankie Cosmos is still writing in her teenage diary
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 […]
“Mother Doll” is a Russian Nesting Doll of the Weight of Generational Inheritance
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, […]
A Mouth Holds Many Things: On the Magic of Hybrid Writing
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 […]
Signs, Symbols, and Omens: A Reading List of Books Featuring Superstitions
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 […]