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This Review Will Wreck Your Evening / Your Whole Life and Your Day
by Ben DeVries | Jan 18, 2017 | Placeless
The show excels in precisely the same way as its source material: it approaches its subject matter with a pitch-perfect ear for dark humor, and with an impishly ironic attitude toward storytelling.
Cellos and Controversy
by Geneva Langeland | Jan 17, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
imagine my dismay when I discovered on Monday that The Piano Guys, one of my favorite musical groups, had accepted Trump’s toxic invitation.
Eating Schnitzel in Germany
by Andrew Knot | Jan 16, 2017 | Cologne
Thus, dousing your schnitzel in gravy is a gastronomical shot in the foot, tantamount to putting ice cream in the oven.
The Weight of Nothing
by Cassie Westrate | Jan 15, 2017 | Placeless
“It’s just that because the universe is expanding, that means it goes on forever, and forever makes now seem pointless,” I told Luke one day.
The Faces of Radio
by Catherine Kramer | Jan 13, 2017 | Placeless
I can distinctly remember my life before I knew what Delilah looked like, but I cannot go back to that time.
Why I Don’t Write Poems
by Abby Zwart | Jan 12, 2017 | Placeless
And if there’s one thing I’m really not, it’s a poet.
When the Movie You Love Doesn’t Love You Back
by Elaine Schnabel | Jan 11, 2017 | Placeless
We started talking about all the shit she got done in Rogue One.
Unfortunately, it turns out Jyn gets zero shit done in Rogue One.
Martha, Martha
by Katie Van Zanen | Jan 10, 2017 | Placeless
Well, shit, Jesus.
The Great Challenge of Trying
by Bart Tocci | Jan 9, 2017 | Placeless
Setting a goal is setting yourself up for failure. You set a goal when you want to achieve something, you don’t set a goal for something you already have.
A Definitive Ranking of Chopped Judges
by Paul Menn | Jan 8, 2017 | Placeless
It is truly the judges who shine brightly on this program. So, here is the definitive ranking of the judges from best to worst (as well as a few remarks on their fashion sense).
26.
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Jan 7, 2017 | Placeless
Forgive me, I still haven’t learned the difference
between beautiful and important things.
La La Life
by Josh deLacy | Jan 6, 2017 | California, Washington
Mia, waitress, wants to be an actor; Sebastian, broke musician, wants to own a jazz club. But La La Land’s biggest tension happens outside the screen: an unspoken, unreferenced standoff between itself and the twenty-first century.
Achievable New Year’s Resolutions
by Alissa Anderson | Jan 5, 2017 | Placeless
Drink water. Preferably every day. Make your bed…at least once a week.
Genetic Potential
by Ben Rietema | Jan 4, 2017 | Placeless
So for the present, let’s stay out of the future. And dear god, let dogs stay dogs, let cats stay cats, and let mice stay undersized rats.
For the Bibliobibuli (Or for Those Who Read Too Much): A Curated Reading List
by Meg Schmidt | Jan 3, 2017 | Placeless
6 / A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket. In preparation for the Netflix adaption.
Through the Limbo Days
by Jacob Schepers | Jan 2, 2017 | Indiana, Michigan
Come this new year, let’s not see how low we can go.
January 1st, Again
by Katerina Parsons | Jan 1, 2017 | Honduras, Michigan
The New Year doesn’t really feel any different. Like birthdays after twenty-one.
Best of 2016
by Abby Zwart | Dec 31, 2016 | Placeless
In the spirit of the anthology, we’ve decided to tailor our annual “best of” list to the sections in the book.
Memiography
by Kyric Koning | Dec 30, 2016 | Grand Rapids, Greece
I can’t be the only one who wanted to know others’ thoughts about them. The stories locked away, whatever they are, waiting to be told.
Living in China Is Like…
by Bethany Van Kooten | Dec 29, 2016 | China
…using an old atlas to navigate new roads.
Into the Light
by Brad Zwiers | Dec 27, 2016 | Placeless
Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, my mind goes to empty and distant places.
A Literary Hajj
by Nick Meekhof | Dec 26, 2016 | Michigan
The road to the Two Hearted River is not an easy one.
Ding Dong Uneasily on High
by Jack VA | Dec 25, 2016 | Placeless
Every day since then, when I wake, the first thing I experience is that ringing.
All the Poor and Powerless
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Dec 24, 2016 | Placeless
This Christmas eve, I feel responsible.
Grace and Humbugs
by Julia LaPlaca | Dec 23, 2016 | Placeless
I never identified with Scrooge until this Christmas. It’s so easy to be Scrooge.
The Best Jackets In Movie History: A Cinematic Retrospective
by Matt Medendorp | Dec 22, 2016 | Placeless
Can you imagine how ridiculous a whip and fedora would look paired with elbow patches? The jacket lays the foundation of the transformation.
Adventures in Personal Finance
by Gabe Gunnink | Dec 20, 2016 | Placeless
“Just for the sake of the simulation. I need to enter an end point. How long do you plan on living?”
Another Allegory of a Cave
by Mary Margaret Healy | Dec 19, 2016 | Placeless
I don’t know how long I do this, but I have begun making a map in my head of the curves and turns in the wall.
For it is by Grace: Three Reflections
by Ben DeVries | Dec 18, 2016 | Placeless
If this is grace, it’s as lovely as it is disconcerting. It takes the very ugliest of us and says, “I can work with this. Child, I can work with you.”
Choose Your Own Misadventure
by Geneva Langeland | Dec 17, 2016 | Ann Arbor, Detroit
Two important facts: first, there are two doors leading into this bathroom, one from the hallway and one from my housemate’s bedroom. Second, a deadbolt on the bathroom-hallway door allows it to be locked from the inside.
