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Invisible Landscapes
This essay is a companion piece to an episode of Radiolab, titled The Interstitium. You don’t need to have heard it for this essay to make sense, but listening to it will Continue reading
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Animalia
Gay Is the Thing with Feathers
THEIR FACES GLOW in the Manhattan sunlight, all the glorious queens, whether their wigs are hot pink or neon yellow, their eye shadow emerald or sapphire, their chins smooth or bearded. Continue reading
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The Edge of the Sacred
I WAS AT PIZZA EDGE IN CHINLE, Arizona, contemplating the idea of the sacred. The air was warm for late autumn. I recognize this weather: warm, faint winds, and the awareness Continue reading
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Eating from the Mountains
ON A SNOWY OCTOBER NIGHT, I sat across a wobbly table from my sweetheart and took my first bite of venison in decades. The flavor was strong: iron, salt, and a Continue reading
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Griefhouse
WHEN MY FATHER DIED, I began making weekly visits to a public grief house. I mean greenhouse. For seven Mondays, I rode the streetcar across town to warm myself in a Continue reading