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By Jim Curtis “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away,” the irredeemably landlocked Emily Dickinson once wistfully wrote. Immobilized… Read More »The Complete Sherlock Holmes as a Frigate

By Sarah Ernestine I waited seven years to read The Goldfinch. Someone gifted me a copy back in high school when it won a Pulitzer,… Read More »99 Percent: Listening to The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

By Rebekah Morris Content warning: rape, child sexual abuse My Grandma Betty had a secret. The kind of secret that haunts you to your grave,… Read More »When Women Were Birds There Were No Secrets

By Quinn Forlini My sophomore English class was starting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey when I was going to have surgery.… Read More »Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in a Fog of Medication

By Mary DeCarlo “______ makes me happy,” read a homework assignment I was given as a kindergartener. (Fill in the blank and draw a picture.)… Read More »My Year of Stress and Isolation: Reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation in Spring 2020

By Mariah Eppes “Strange, the way we look into each other’s eyes on a Sunday afternoon like this, as if we had something to say… Read More »The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories

By Miun Gleeson After some time off, I returned to therapy this month. And like all good writers-in-therapy eager to document the salient takeaways—short of… Read More »Reading for Fun and Other Antidotes to Grief: Picking Up People We Meet on Vacation

By Dian Parker In silence, the world comes in close. Drops of rain sliding off the eaves seem to be inside the bedroom, on my… Read More »Silent Quarantine: Processing the Pandemic Through Literature

By Teresa Pham-Carsillo For as long as I could remember, I had a fantasy of being in a position of concentrated solitude, able at last… Read More »The Price Is Loneliness: Reimagining the Fantasy of Writing in Solitude