Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

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Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

How to Get Undead in Advertising: An Interview with Aurora Stewart de Peña

The author of Julius Julius on ad agency ghosts, shaming PSAs, and sexual harassment post-#MeToo

In the Mist

Notes on cruising. 

‘Stories of Haunted Houses’: An Interview with Rachel Aviv

The author of Strangers to Ourselves on finding new ways to understand mental illness.

The Fence

On growing up trans in the Yukon.

Breaking the Infinite Content Loop

Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! encourages us to press eject. 

'We Must Allow the Hungrier, Weaker Parts of Ourselves': An Interview with Fancy Feast

The author of Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques on the hot potato of performance art, the nutritiousness of filth, and exorcisms.

‘I Built It Like a Listening Machine’: An Interview with Max Porter

The author of Shy on inherited ideas of care, suicidal ideation, and the erotics of bullying.

I Can Feel My Heart Beating Just Fine On My Own

My Apple Watch told me, every day, how I was grinding myself down, but it didn’t particularly care.