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Rereading Nawal El Saadawi at 29 in Brooklyn
Apr 29, 2025
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Watching Peter Yates in Columbus, Ohio, at 27
Apr 17, 2025
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Vincent Albarano
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Everyone’s Moment of Glory
Reading Clarice Lispector at 32 in London, Ontario, After My Grandmother’s Death
Mar 27, 2025
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Carly Bush
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A Mirror and a Thread
Reading Sylvia Plath at 24 in Manhattan
Mar 13, 2025
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Sarah Finley Purdy
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Founder Post II: The Luxury of Attention
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brand
Mar 11, 2025
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Living in God’s Silence
Watching Ingmar Bergman at 32 in Portland, Maine
Feb 27, 2025
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Elisabeth Bialosky
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I Was Dream Sick—Then Everything Ripped
Reading Camus at 22 in Southeast Portland
Feb 19, 2025
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I Didn’t Know What My Wound Was. So I Kept Reading.
Reading Anne Carson at 22 in a West Oakland Victorian
Feb 11, 2025
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Aumaine Rose Smith
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