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i am here to talk about kim kardashian
i’ve been writing this essay about kim kardashian for so long that it feels like i have never not been writing this essay about kim kardashian. and that’s saying a lot coming from someone who’s been...
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i am here to talk about kim kardashian again
[CW: assault, gun violence, rape] for someone who’s all about cultivating A Sense of Occasion IRL, i always struggle to write when the occasion calls for it. but i am aware that on this day, five...
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11/22
typical, i’ve a strong sense of occasion and nothing really to say. today is 22nd november. 58 years ago, the woman i’ve spent the last 18 years writing about was sitting beside her husband when he...
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my life with jackie, redux; or, on melancholy
it is like a nesting doll, all of it. my life with jackie, my writing about jackie. so that when i read the pages i have written about jackie, the whole book i have written on her life, it unpacks a...
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the pathos of jackie kennedy dolls on etsy, vol. 4, no. 1
this is a thing we historically have done so i’mma just dive right on in. if you’re like DOCTOR ONLINE WUT EVEN IS THIS, i refer you to my rich seam of informal, doctoral-level scholarship on emotions...
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scattered memories of challenger
what i remember is all of the adults in my life going into the den and shutting the door. that’s not actually an accurate memory, as it was my mother and ann, our cleaner, and then, later, my dad. but...
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my life with jackie, a pause/warped love letter(?) [life-writing, 1]
i would like to pause. (2013) because things have happened so slow and then so quick– slowly careening is how i’ve characterized it– and the book sold but there was no paperwork and it seemed like...
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I AM NOT WRITING ABOUT KIM KARDASHIAN
(via insta) because i *am* writing about kim kardashian but i’m at that stage of the writing process where the writing is being actively avoided, not because it isn’t going to happen but because i’m...
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incredibly detailed but nonetheless vague scrambled memories stemming from...
do you know about silent lunch? did you have silent lunch??? silent lunch. a punitive measure i’ve not even thought to remember in decades. something so stupid (or traumatic?), i’d apparently erased...
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your plant is reaching out, trying to find the sun [life-writing, 3 {being in...
Denis Petrov and Elena Bechke of Russia performing in the pairs skating event during the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, circa February 1992. (Photo by Eileen Langsley/Popperfoto via...
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twenty-eight years later
this’ll be about jackie having died on this day twenty-eight years ago today. wait for it. *** we’re at a rooftop bar in athens, a former student and i, as the sun sets. we’re talking about writing...
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times to remember
that’s the title of rose kennedy’s 1974 memoir. at this point my biggest memory of times to remember is of the time i spent in the research room at the jfk library powering through the cassette tapes...
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