After the Funeral: A Guide to Friends
The morning after my father died, everything seemed quieter when I woke up. The phone didn’t ring. The angry winds that gusted over 70...
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JDnightwriter
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Demon Pipe
It was an ugly piece of ceramic. My grandfather's pipe. It was a brown shade of green, almost swamp-like and shaped like a demon with its...
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In the End, It Came Down to Socks
When we first came to this country from Russia in the mid-80s, my grandmother was a 60-something, spry widow open to romance. She was a...
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Chained
Somewhere in the Mojave desert, miles away from the last Joshua trees, stands a ten-foot tall sand wall that reaches into the distance as...
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Sui-homicidal Thoughts
December 29, 2020. My dad and I are at Sloan Kettering Urgent Care due to dad’s worsening shortness of breath. It is our eighth time at...
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To the Lighthouse and the Great Beyond
Reading the first half of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is like attending a never-ending Thanksgiving dinner at your least favorite...
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Tully: Scared Straight
Watching Tully is like being in a Scared Straight episode where they take at-risk youths to prison and the morgue. There is no escape...
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Searching for Purity
The pure, synthetic tones of Deep Forest are not pure at all in this apartment on the 13th floor of a building in the Brighton Beach...
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Returning to Rodina
I like to think I inherited the Dostoevsky Idiot gene from my papa. I mean that as a compliment. Papa is honest and always says what’s on...
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Bombshell Bombed
Charlize Theron does not disappoint. Her acting genius is obvious and she easily became Megyn Kelly in Bombshell, just as easily as when...
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Some People Look Better in Masks
December 15, 2020. My dad and I are sitting in a Sloan Kettering waiting room about to meet with my dad's oncologist. We are both wearing...
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Was Wonder Woman 1984 Created by AI?
Caricature of the iconic Wonder Woman from the corny '80s mall scene to the saving of Steve's face from a bullet with the Magic Lasso....
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The Torso and the Needle
December 20, 2007. We are minutes away from becoming a junkie couple, she thought standing on the corner of 49th and Lexington, waiting for
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Platforms and Sidewalks
It was a Monday. It was a Monday like any other Monday in March. Longer days and the air slowly loosening its frosty bite of the city. Optim
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The Sleepless Sleep Study
A couple of months ago, weary and desperate from chronic insomnia, I signed up to do a sleep study.Overnight bag in hand, I arrived at the s
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