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Sex and the City: Lauren Jackson, November 28 (Guest Post)

Chicago, Illinois HEY LADIES!! I watched Sex and the City in the summer weeks between college and grad school, holed up in a tiny, campus-adjacent apartment surrounded by hundreds of…

Contemporaries Essays, Uncategorized

Sex and the City: Ned, November 21

Bed-Stuy, New York Dear Girls, I can’t believe we’ve reached the end. In lieu of collecting my thoughts and actually writing something about Sex and the City, I’ve decided to embrace…

Contemporaries Essays

My Struggle, vol. 6: Dan, November 20

Somewhere over the Atlantic Dear friends, It was anxiety. Now, despair. “My basic feeling is that of the world disappearing, that our lives are being filled with images of the…

Contemporaries Essays, Interviews

Being a Woman in Public

Convened by Claire Jarvis

Contemporaries Essays

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,…

Contemporaries Essays

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…

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…

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Contemporaries Essays

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….

Contemporaries Essays

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…