Convened by Claire Jarvis
Archive for 2018

My Struggle, vol. 6: Marit MacArthur, November 13
Sacramento, California, indoors, hiding from hellish air quality due to the Camp Fire, dealing with my children’s first case of head lice “Most reckless things are beautiful in some way,…

My Struggle, vol. 6: Joshua Keating, November 12
Washington, D.C. Dear fellow strugglers, A wave of nostalgia hit me as I finished Book Six of My Struggle after midnight on a sweltering August night. While I had inhaled…

Sex and the City: Dilara O’Neil (Guest Post), November 8
Bed-Stuy, New York Dear Friends, In Season 5, Episode 5, on the heels of her breakup with Aidan, and Big’s move to Napa Valley, Carrie publishes a collection of her…


My Struggle , vol. 6: Jess Arndt, November 6
“What was so dangerous about closeness?” (redux) The Old 77, New Orleans, LA and Echo Park, LA, CA All, Like Omari, I’m struggling (no pun indented) more than I expect/ed….

My Struggle , vol. 6: Omari, October 31
Portland, OR Dear all, Before I get to Hitler, I want to talk about feelings—my own, stirred by one Karl Ove Knausgaard. I wrote another letter before I wrote this…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Katherine Hill, October 26
October 26, 2018 Brooklyn, NY Dear Each and Every One of You, Several of you have heard this already, out loud, at our exhilarating Slow Burn panel at ASAP/10 in…

Sex and the City: Andrea, October 26
Andrea Long Chu

My Struggle , vol. 6: Rachel Greenwald Smith, October 23
St. Louis, MO Dear Slow Burners, As I slowly make my way through Book 6, I keep thinking about this one moment in Charlie Rose’s famous interview with David Foster…