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Cutting Up

A.D. Amorosi — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000

“A friend, Brion Gysin, an American poet and painter, who has lived in Europe for thirty years, was, as far as I know, the first to create cut-ups. His cut-up poem, Minutes to Go, was broadcast by the BBC and later published in a pamphlet. I was in Paris in the summer of 1960; this […]

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Days of Long Ago

Elliot Wilner — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000

Dozens of young adults, most of them Scandinavian tourists, were happily chattering in the lobby of Eilat’s Hotel Snapir soon after sunset, after having spent another toasty day on the beach. The lobby was uncomfortably warm, maybe due to the heat that radiated from the tourists’ sunburned skins. Passing through the lobby, I opened the […]

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Is it Cool that I Said All That?

Sarah Hansen — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:34:31 +0000

At midnight on February 12, 2021, I sat in the twin bed of my childhood bedroom with the lights turned off and my headphones on. Like so many twenty-somethings who became unemployed or underemployed due to the pandemic, I’d unexpectedly moved home with my parents. Suddenly, my life was pervaded with an eerie sense of déjà […]

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Pancake’s Haunts

Marek Makowski — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:36:12 +0000

I first heard of Breece D’J Pancake in a small pizzeria an hour west of Chicago. I had not been tending the bar that summer night, but Rae was, and when I came in to pick up a pizza she said to the lone man at the counter, writing, he does writing, and she called to me from behind the bar, saying, Honey, honey, O, honey, you […]

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Like You’re Running Out of Time

Byshera Williams — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:30:49 +0000

I’d waited months, nay years, for this moment. I was finally getting a tattoo and not just any tattoo but a tattoo of a Hamilton lyric after seeing the musical on broadway. In high school I was dead set on getting the Fall Out Boy lyric, “I can write it better than you ever felt […]

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