Essays
December 7th, 2013Past TenThe PunchesVol. 1 BrooklynTheodore Dreiser’s Short Story “Free”Litbreak MagazineOn WhistlingMöistworksSecretionsMöistworksMy Father, My Love, My SchizophrenicTalk SpaceLetter from AustriaPublishing Genius PressThe Grief of an Empty Nest: No Arms SyndromeTalk SpaceMy Mother’s Dementia Helped Me Finally Hear Her StoriesThe CutPJ Harvey: Recording in ProgressFanzineMy Father’s Suicide and “The Days of Abandonment”Vol. 1 BrooklynBrian Allen Carr’s Short Bus and Flannery O’Connor’s “Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”Big OtherTravels with My Aunt: A Look at Satire and OutsidernessBig OtherAn Alternate Reading of “Pride,” by Alice MunroBig OtherTouching on Grief: On the Story “Dreaming Before Sleep,” by Kathryn Chetkovich, and Freedom, by Jonathan FranzenBig OtherOn Reading Dan Chaon’s “Falling Backwards” and Mary Gaitskill’s “The Arms and Legs of the Lake”: An Essay on CompassionBig OtherOn Tolstoy’s “The Devil,” David Foster Wallace’s Suicide, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder’s Letters from Mexico, and Self-ControlBig OtherMcCarthy’s Anton Chigurh and the Meaning of ViolenceBig OtherPaula Bomer, On ReadingThe Laughing Yeti