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Advent 2021, Dec 15, Darcy Jay Gagnon: Mr. Weschler’s Cabinet of Wonder
After Lawrence Weschler’s “Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder.”Cranes (grues) take their name from the murmuring sound they make. Cranes are continuously at war with the race of Pygmies, hostilities cease...
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Advent 2021, Dec 16, Thomas Mira y Lopez: José J. Veiga's "Professor Pulquério"
After José J. Veiga's "Professor Pulquério"& Alejandro Zambro's "Multiple Choice"When I was a boy and lived in a 1) _____ in the interior, I watched 2) ______ strange episode involving a professor...
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Advent 2021, Dec 17: Sara Campbell, In Office (with apologies to Joan Didion)
After Joan Didion's "In Bed" [link]*IN OFFICE(With Apologies to Joan Didion)* Three, four, sometimes seven days a month, I spend my life in a PMS haze, hyper-sensitive to the world around me. Almost...
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Advent 2021, Dec 18, Lawrence Lenhart: Consider the Bat: dining comments on...
After David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" and M. K. Fisher's "Love and Death Among the Molluscs"Port Vila, Vanuatu, December 2019Minutes after placing my order at L’Houstalet Restaurant,...
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Advent 2021, Dec 19: Scott Dickensheets, This Tub is Full
THIS TUB IS FULLAfter David Gates'"Log Man" (unavailable online; find it in The Bastard on the Couch)*It’s early still; dawn hasn’t yet dumped its groggy light into the back yards of suburban Las...
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Advent 2021, Dec 20, Marcia Aldrich: Men and Marriage and Me
After Sei Shônagon’s The Pillow BookThey take the last ice cube and don’t refill the tray.Is a run-on sentence;They leave their glasses, shoes, and belts around the house for the imaginary maid to pick...
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Advent 2021, Dec 21 Patrick Madden: On a Pleasing Encounter without a Pickpocket
after Louise Imogen Guiney's "On a Pleasing Encounter with a Pickpocket""It struck me that the sweet symmetry of the thing ought not to be spoiled; that I was serving a new use and approximating a new...
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Advent 2021, Dec 22: Ander Monson: 150 Random Things About Me Too
After Matias Viegener's 2500 Random Things About Me Too * II should say up front I wrote this while my daughter was at karate.I dislike writing longhand but it was all I had so I went for...
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Advent 2021, Dec 23, Will Slattery: Merry Christmas from Engels' Right...
After Anne Carson's "Merry Christmas from Hegel"It was another pandemic year when I found myself again bitter over healthcare housing climate and all manner of woes & catastrophes for which I am...
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Advent 2021, Dec 24, David Griffith: On Slaughterhouse-Five
After Chapter 1 of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutThe cattle are lowingThe Baby awakes.But the little Lord JesusNo crying He makes.All this happened, more or less. The MFA parts, anyway, are...
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Advent 2021, Dec 25, Jenny Spinner: The Death of the Moth-er
After Virginia Woolf’s The Death of the MothCarpet moths are properly called carpet moths. They eat carpets, and they are moths. They also eat sweaters and blankets and that old black wool dress coat...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: SPENCER WILKINS, On Disposal
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: HANNAH BONNER, Being Alive Twice: a New Moon Report
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: REBECCA FLOWERS, The Death of the Beetle
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: SARAH KHATRY, The Shadow World
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: AARON PANG, Code
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: LOGAN NAYLOR, My Stolen Property
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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The 2021 Christmas Octave: MARTHA STRAWBRIDGE, An Incompleteness Theorem
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we're extending it this time around to include the Octave of Christmas (Christmas Day through New Year's Day). We'll also...
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Sean Lovelace's Classic Essay, "Total T-Rex"
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we decided to make it a regular (if occasional) feature. So expect more cover essays in 2022 and beyond. And if you've got a cover...
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Cheryl Graham, I ♥ the 80s
We had so many great cover essays for this year's Advent Calendar that we decided to make it a regular (if occasional) feature. So expect more cover essays in 2022 and beyond. And if you've got a cover...
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