First Person Lonesome: Writing About the Covid-Experience How does one write about the experience of COVID? It’s universal–the virus has covered the world, but it is also particular. Some of us were […]
Dispatch #094
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Dispatch #093
Making Sense of Pandemic Era as a Writer – May 12, 2023 – So yesterday, May 11, was the day that Covid-19 Public Health emergency in the United States ended. I sit […]
Dispatch #092
Capital Philosophy by Drew Pisarra I forget when Reality became a genre, ‘though I do recall when Lies were recast as Alt Facts. As for what’s Sane that’s always been up for […]
Dispatch #091
The Year I Quit Teaching by ruth crossman I spent the Fall of 2019 working six days a week at two different colleges on opposite ends of San Francisco while frantically applying […]
Dispatch #090
Sixty Percent by Juli Lasselle The ableds are complaining. They’re doing analyses on the effects of Covid-19 lockdown isolation or close quarters with their families: the depression, the strain on relationships, the […]
Dispatch #089
INCOMING: THE GAME by Michael Brownstein The sun beckons us outside, a spring wind waves its hand, so we go–leaving the fortress into the world of confusion, disharmony, angst, and fear. Our […]
Dispatch #088
TIME by Aimee Suzara Thinking and writing about the sacrifices of motherhood and the loss of a writer’s most precious resource: TIME. First, of course, I chose to be a mother, and […]
Dispatch #087
INTERVIEW WITH THE VIRUS by D.S. Black Good day C.V. every day I’m still alive’s a good day Good day Crown-Virus Esquire—not to curry favor if such a thing were even possible […]
Dispatch #086
Village Talk by Mj Pramik Posted May 13, 2020 I’d like to slap that smirk right off Paul Hudson’s face! Didn’t his friggin mother teach him some morals?! Sneering Paul thinks he’s […]
Dispatch #085
HOW TO BE HUMAN – Letting Go by Elisa Stancil From the early days of this sea change April 2020 Yesterday a package arrived from China, elastic I sourced from Etsy months […]
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