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[...] Minnie is actually the fourth Minnie Dora Bunn; the original Minnie Dora Bunn was one of the charter members, and she and every subsequent Minnie Dora Bunn have served as Society president in their turn. The Minnie I spoke to, let's call her MDB4, recently gave birth to her first child, a gir…

Keeler, California, is so far way that when you scan the radio for a station, it dials through empty airwaves until it comes all the way around to your original blank frequency, and goes again. I was driving south to north through the center of the state on the hunt for someplace remote and dry, ex…

Beloved is in one sense a fable about the chiaroscuro of staying half-merged to someone else, the redemptive power and the unholy danger of “not separate from.”

Accordingly, it is just as common to look for membranes where there are none. We trace our fingers over the faces or bodies of people we love as if we wish we could leave unspoken thoughts and feelings behind like residue. We place our foreheads together and press gently, as if to see whether we ca…

illness is not a metaphor or a study but a phenomenon unfolding in (and on) real bodies in real rooms. Its qualia, the crinkly paper hospital gown and metallic adrenaline taste, the mutable and inexpressible shades of pain, demand articulation because they matter