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2020 Advent Calendar: Dec 18, Lauren C. Ostberg, Tardigrades v. Human Enterprise
Tardigrades v. Human Enterprise, ----E.D.A. 5th---- (2020). [1]OPINIONLauren C. Ostberg, Esq.A Second Circuit case concerning the alleged infringement of copyrightable elements in the video game...
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2020 Advent Calendar, Dec 19, Brooke Champagne: Reading Beth Ann Fennelly’s...
Setting Intentions (Ujjayi)This year’s global pandemic gifted me early on with two aspects of myself long recessed: running and poetry. I began pounding the Tuscaloosa pavement again because my gym...
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2020 Advent Calendar, Dec 20, Travis Scholl, The Frictionless Synchronicity:...
“I am simply trying to see something I am too small to see,” writes Corinna Cook early on in her essay collection, Leavetakings. She is writing of a continent she is trying to traverse by the slanted,...
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2020 Advent Calendar: Dec 21, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Recognitions: in...
I had planned to write about Zadie Smith’s pocket-sized collection of essays titled Intimations. It seemed a good plan, this set of six quick, roving ruminations about living and thinking in pandemic...
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2020 Advent Calendar: Dec 22, Melissa Faliveno, Of Minutiae and Monuments
I finished reading only one essay collection this year. As an essayist, this is troubling to admit. I’ve been reading several collections, slowly picking my way through one or another over the past few...
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2020 Advent Calendar, Dec 23, Jenny Spinner: The Writer in a Pandemic: On...
“The people sometimes demand change. They almost never demand art.”—"Something to Do,” Intimations, Zadie SmithZadie Smith’s latest collection of personal essays, written in the spring and published...
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Advent Calendar 2020, Dec 24, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich: The End of the World Is...
As 2020 finally draws to a close, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future. Or rather, I’ve been thinking about how impossible it is to think about the future, really think about it, hold a space and...
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2020 Advent Calendar, Dec 25, Dave Griffith: On Eula Biss' On Having and...
It’s four days before Christmas and I am on hold with Visa prepaid gift card services--I have been had. My dad sent me a $100 gift card for Christmas, and when I go to use it at Ho Ping, the Chinese...
View ArticleDavid Grandouiller: Unreality, Ohio
“It’s a book about disaster,” I told my friends all summer—on a march to the statehouse or at an outdoor wedding. “But not just disaster. It’s sort of about human psychology and disaster. Or sociology...
View ArticleText Your Dead: An Invitation from Eric LeMay
How will we mourn everyone who's dead and dying? This question, like so many others, spiraling inside me. Inside us. I replay the numbers. Yesterday's death count, in my county, our country, our...
View ArticleAnna I. McClain: John le Carré vs Ian Fleming: Overcoming Heartlessness in...
Flip to any page of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and you will find enough layers of nuance to seed a doctoral dissertation on the Cold War. The quintessential 1963 spy novel by the late John le...
View ArticleAnandi Mishra: The Case for Twitter as an MFA Community
Historically writers have gone on a lot about how writing can get extremely lonely. So, when I started writing creative non-fiction early on during the pandemic, as a side to my day job as a...
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The #Midwessay: Anne-Marie Oomen, Extinct, Endangered, Threatened, Recovered
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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The #Midwessay: Alison Swan, From the Inner Coast
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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The #Midwessay: Sven Birkerts, I Think of the Midwest
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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The #Midwessay: Monica Rico, Mexican American in the Midwest
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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The #Midwessay: Matthew Gavin Frank, The Midwestern Essayist Can Only Wonder
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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The #Midwessay: Cris Mazza, "Who Am I? Why Am I Here"
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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#The Midwessay: Ron Riekki, The Midwest is the Middle East
What is the #Midwessay? What is the Midwest? What are the characteristics, if any, of the #Midwessay (the Midwest essay)? What gathers us together? What pulls us apart? Springing from a twitter...
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#The Midwessay: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Deep Roots: Excavating the Nebraska...
A souvenir postcard, found on the web, says “Don’t think that all the gold/Is treasured in Alaska/For golden corn and Golden Rod/Enrich the state Nebraska.” Goldenrod, named Nebraska’s state flower in...
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