Pandemic Lit
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September 27, 2021 |
Photo by Burgess Milner / Unsplash Winnowing down to essentials during a pandemic, a writer with too much time to think cleans out her closet and immediately regrets letting go of a sweate... -
July 7, 2021 |
Photo by Chris Knight / Unsplash Despite political differences, a client finds common ground with his barber in 1990s NBA players and teams. Trimming my bangs, my barber starts up. “J... -
June 16, 2021 |
Photo by Daniel Tafjord / Unsplash Unrequited love I download a book. One of those books—for women. Certainly not porn, but you know. Never mind the... -
May 6, 2021 |
Lupines / Photo by Robert Bradbury A writer in Newfoundland gets away—relocating for three weeks to Pinchgut Lake, only fifteen minutes from her home. Treating the change as “every bit as... -
February 24, 2021 |
Photo by Oscar Sutton / Unsplash During quarantine, a poet, essayist, and aphorist returns to the aphorism, the “sushi of literature.” If life has placed you on probation, best to pro... -
January 19, 2021 |
Photo courtesy of the author Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spending time in her backyard—a “precious contained universe, teeming with life”—a writer ponders whether we’ll... -
January 14, 2021 |
Photo credit: Elsa Noblet / Unsplash After 140 days at home, one person wants more space; the other, more plants. I wanted a room of my own, so I talked my husband into moving into a...
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