Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Rehearsals

ESSAY

Leslie Jamison plays wedding anthropologist and martyr.

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Lidia Yuknavitch: The TNB Self-Interview

NONFICTION SELF-INTERVIEWS

Gemini: I suppose you remember what your mother told you about Geminis…

Lidia: Yup. She said, in a thick southern drawl, “Well, you know, being with a Gemini is like being in a room with 50 people.”

Gemini: So which you are you today?

Lidia: The Lidia that just picked her kid up from school on her way to the grocery store before she washes clothes.

Gemini: Ah. The domestic Lidia.

Lidia: Correct.

Gemini: She’s fucking boring.

Lidia: Gee, thanks. But you are dead wrong.

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And Then, We Go for a Walk

ESSAY

The high adventure of the everyday errand.

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The Electrifying Conclusion to One of the Sloppiest International Moves in Recent History, or Everything (Supposedly) Happens for a Reason

TRAVEL

Kip (realized he) lost his passport 13 hours before he was to get on a plane and effectively move from Spain, where he had lived for almost six years. Through a series of phone calls, he was told he might still be able to board the plane. So, with his heart racing at full patter, he went there and tried to board that plane. Sort of an ultimate bad-day tale that makes you thankful you are not him.

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