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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

The Year in Taking Credit Away from Drake

Credit has always been a nebulous idea in the world of hip-hop.

The Year in Sobbing Towards Change

Why do something if you're just going to cry about it? 

The Year in Literature of Urban Disquiet

Cities change, and the way that writers write about them changes as well. A place's past can act as a kind of call to arms, or it can become the backdrop for a different kind of story.

The Year in Reading Infinite Jest

I wouldn't be depressed so long as I had this insurmountable mission in front of me. 

The Year in Ice Thickness

Why, in the face of an unquantifiable disaster, are we talking about numbers at all?

The Year in Coming Close

The month that Blue Jays pitchers and catchers reported to spring training marked the first anniversary of my husband and I trying to have a baby.