Contemporaries Essays

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…

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…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Diana, October 15

Brooklyn, NY Dears, If, having opened a long book by a novelist you despise in preparation for an unpaid task, you find yourself too unwilling to let him tell you…

Sex and the City: Lakshmi, October 13

Lakshmi Padmanabhan