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Losing a City

“Regardless, an aquiline parasite lived inside me, compelling me violently with its bald-eagle talons to wage psychological Revolutionary Warfare against my own best friend.”

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David Brundige Broke My Heart

David Brundige’s senior thesis production, “Pig Tails,” reviewed. “Go see ‘Pig Tails,'” writes Gold.

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A Yacht Club Party is Winding Down

The last few bars of a big-band tune exposing themselves without a hint of self-awareness and the half-sober apercus of a gaggle of twenty or so be-sequined, be-suited women and men of a certain age their laughter playing soft on … Read More

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The Personal Politics of the Draft: Nass Recommends Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory

What we can learn from a literary giant’s process of creation.

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Forefather

The morning after my brother climbs in my bed & spends the whole night with his face in his hands, I go to the art museum.

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Spirits in the Night

Bruce Springsteen & Bon Iver live and alive.

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The Wind on Ganja Bridge

A Poem.

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Judging Desire

A few years ago, I attended a lecture on disability fetishism. Disability fetishists include people who are sexually attracted to people who are missing digits, joints and limbs. There are websites and chat rooms in which “devotees” exchange pictures, information, … Read More

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Skyfalls and Rises

Reviewing the newest James Bond movie, having seen it in _theatre_.

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Mama

“Florida, oxidized green, / obliged her on this point, rising / out of the pool into its mildew.”

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I Only Ride Xe Honda

Another narrative about transportation in a foreign country.

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Headless and Gone

After her father escaped the October Revolution, and after her parents fled deeper into Poland from the Russian Invasion of 1920, Magdalena Abakanowicz was born. At the age of nine she saw the Third Reich sink its talons into her … Read More

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