You can make a mistake for an entire life.
Deadland
It took dying to be together.
Spring Contest Winner in Fiction: We Tell Time in Stories, Not Hours
I don’t always know the difference between remembering and seeing, but Tinkerbell says that’s okay because only a fool believes in time and memory both.
Animal Instincts
Everything feels like a death. I climb the tree and my husband hands me the bird.
Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
King is able to capture the particular kind of youth Casey is struggling with perfectly: one where she hasn’t lived anywhere with a dishwasher since high school, where she does not want to be infertile yet also does not want…
Return Instinct
A younger version of herself might have gifted her body to him, for a night. But it is herself she is returning to, and she is greedy for it, so she will not share.
Songbirds of Suburbia
There was another time and another place, and from that place, Jana’s mother pulls forth stories of swamps and leeches, broken bones, neighborhood dogs turned rabid, cars without air conditioning, snakes in yards.
Valentine’s Day Fiction: Pink Salt
He was in his element and whether the pink water or his infectious passion for his work, Ava couldn’t help sneaking glances to admire him, while he completely ignored her in return.
Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain is a master class in depicting the blinding dedications of love and the endless bounds to which people will go to feel in control, to feel better.
Review: Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
In between introducing terms like “feminist fuckboy” and “Golden Dick Syndrome,” the book also tells stories of boys that are largely neglected in society’s sex conversations.
Peak Inside: “Give It Up”, by Emily Jack
When I was diagnosed with cancer my entire life changed. My life was threatened and then put on hold, I lost all of the structure and routine that has kept me stable, but the most significant loss was the one…
NYTimes’ Modern Love Editor: “To love is to care. To hate is to care.” Daniel Jones, interviewed by Andrew H. Miller
Daniel Jones’ Modern Love column at The New York Times and his social media posts about the job (Twitter, Facebook) have granted him online-lit-celebrity status. Every week a new submission is posted to his column after having been read, responded to, edited,…