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After Claude Iris Owens Animals Emma Jane Unsworth Black Cloud Juliet Escoria Broken Glass Park Alina Bronsky Cassandra at the Wedding Dorothy Baker Dead Horse Niina Pollari Empathy Sarah Schulman Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz Gift Certificate Glory Goes and Gets Some Emily Carter Her 37th Year: An Index Suzanne Scanlon How To Get Into the Twin Palms Karolina Waclawiak "One of the things that’s perennially fascinating about the world is the way people sell things to themselves. If people feel the need to sell something to themselves, that tells its own tale." -Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods I Love Dick Chris Kraus I’ll Tell You In Person Chloe Caldwell I’m Trying To Reach You Barbara Browning Inferno (a poet’s novel) Eileen Myles Inside Madeleine Paula Bomer King Kong Theory Virginie Despentes Lee and Elaine Ann Rower Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt Loitering With Intent Muriel Spark Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner Maidenhead Tamara Faith Berger Making Scenes Adrienne Eisen Who gets to speak and why...is the only question Chris Kraus, I Love Dick Margaret the First Danielle Dutton Mean Myriam Gurba Meaty Samantha Irby Mercury Ariana Reines My Body Is a Book of Rules Elissa Washuta My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Nevada Imogen Binnie Nine Months Paula Bomer No More Nice Girls Ellen Willis No Regrets Dayna Tortoricci Notice Heather Lewis One More for the People Martha Grover I got a pedicure each time I promised myself I’d stop doing heroin—which is to say, I got pedicures that whole summer. Pedicures gave me the false notion I was about to get my shit together. I wasn’t functioning well—my brain cells were spent, and my serotonin was depleted. Sitting despondent in a vinyl chair was as good as it got. Chloe Caldwell, I’ll Tell You In Person Our Spoons Came From Woolworths Barbara Comyns Painting Their Portraits In Winter Myriam Gurba Pity the Animal Chelsea Hodson Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work Melissa Gira Grant Pretend I’m Dead Jen Beagin Problems Jade Sharma Promising Young Women Suzanne Scanlon Prostitute Laundry Charlotte Shane Scarecrone Melissa Broder Sempre Susan Sigrid Nunez Socialist Realism Trisha Low Speedboat Renata Adler "I’m a political person, a political radical. I believe that the struggle for freedom, pleasure, transcendence is not just an individual matter. The social system that organizes our lives, and as far as possible channels our desire, is antagonistic to that struggle; to change this requires collective effort. " -Ellen Willis, “Coming Down Again” from No More Nice Girls Surveys Natasha Stagg Temporary Hilary Leichter The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart Filip Noterdaeme the buddhist Dodie Bellamy The Compleat Purge Trisha Low The Correspondence Artist Barbara Browning The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante The Gift Barbara Browning The Selected Jenny Zhang Jenny Zhang The Terrible Girls Rebecca Brown The Wallcreeper Nell Zink Thérèse and Isabelle Violette Leduc "The gangs of girls marched into where we lived like they were welcome. (And, to be fair, they had been once…) They knew from how they’d known us then where we kept what was dear to us. They knew where we hid our special secrets. " -Rebecca Brown, “The Ruined City” from The Terrible Girls Things to Make and Break May-Lan Tan Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Barbara Comyns Yokohama Threeway Beth Lisick
"One of the things that’s perennially fascinating about the world is the way people sell things to themselves. If people feel the need to sell something to themselves, that tells its own tale." -Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
I got a pedicure each time I promised myself I’d stop doing heroin—which is to say, I got pedicures that whole summer. Pedicures gave me the false notion I was about to get my shit together. I wasn’t functioning well—my brain cells were spent, and my serotonin was depleted. Sitting despondent in a vinyl chair was as good as it got. Chloe Caldwell, I’ll Tell You In Person
"I’m a political person, a political radical. I believe that the struggle for freedom, pleasure, transcendence is not just an individual matter. The social system that organizes our lives, and as far as possible channels our desire, is antagonistic to that struggle; to change this requires collective effort. " -Ellen Willis, “Coming Down Again” from No More Nice Girls
"The gangs of girls marched into where we lived like they were welcome. (And, to be fair, they had been once…) They knew from how they’d known us then where we kept what was dear to us. They knew where we hid our special secrets. " -Rebecca Brown, “The Ruined City” from The Terrible Girls