Tag: Friendship

In this suburb, where fast food chains abound, a landscape I first assessed as soulless, I’m beginning to understand why you loved living here. I’ve been missing the point for too long. You were focused on who lived here, on their stories. You didn’t distance yourself from the people you helped ... Read More

Call Me by Your Name could have easily drowned in its own pretension. Italy. Lombardy. Summer. The 1980s. Bright bathing suits and plenty of Italian Europop. Luca Guadagnino’s film takes up residence in an idle northern Italian 17th-century villa and tells the story of Elio Perlman, a precocious seventeen-year-old who ... Read More

“Dear Girlfriends, it's time for our annual new year's celebration. Once again, please bring something written, by you or others, to share with the group. It will be so wonderful to hear the various voices and subjects you select.” The email invitation calls us together to mark two occasions that ... Read More

Sandy Ebner's essay "Jesse Lee" is a powerful story about friendship and loss. Unfortunately, the main character in her essay passed away before the publication of her piece. We were interested in seeing how she considered her essay after this tragic event, and how an essay about the different ways one can lose a ... Read More

This is how I learned what abuse looks like: I’m sitting at the bar with Jesse. Nineteen years old, sipping my Jack and Coke, I think I know everything, so sure I have the world figured out. “So,” I ask her, “why did you and Ronny get a divorce?” Marriage, ... Read More