by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 16, 2020 | Personal Essays
End of March 1972: Rettakudi and Kunnam Villages, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, southern India, India, Northern Hemisphere, Earth. Rettakudi was my father’s ancestral village. Kunnam was my mother’s. Most of the summer we were in Rettakudi, but sometimes we would go...
by Elizabeth Stark | Sep 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is how it happened: I was listening to an interview Tim Ferris did with Maria Popova of Brainpickings.org, and in passing they referred to “the semi-colon” quote by Kurt Vonnegut, in the context of a conversation Tim Ferris had with a friend who has a semi-colon...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 14, 2020 | Fiction, Personal Essays
Over the weekend, my whole family was locked inside as California blazed as an undeniable result of the climate crisis with unbreathable air. Which is how I was home and watching the online ceremony where my novel SIDE CHICK NATION won a prize. It was selected for...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 11, 2020 | Reporting
Today, we recall September 11th of 2001 and the attacks on the World Trade Center. However, back ini April, the deaths from coronavirus in New York City alone surpassed the number of people killed on 9/11/01. As of today, the city’s death toll is nearly...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 10, 2020 | Personal Essays
September 7, 1970. New Delhi, India, Daily, early in the morning, just before sunrise, I hear the pipes surging noisily during the two hour rationed water time. I clamber off the bamboo mat on the floor, dash swiftly to the...
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