Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.
Overheard through Telegram
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7 Steps to the Perfect Cover Letter
A strong cover letter can help your application stand out from a stack of identical resumés, and can give your interviewer more insight into who you really are.
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Lazarus Sleeps
the clacking of his thoughts sound like the anxious machinery of a typewriter, ribbon unspooling into ink-laden pages hammered by shakespeare’s thousand sweatshop monkeys he dreams he just woke up to find his mouth open and full of flies: their bodies are fat and rich with blood, and they beat against his tongue again and…
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The Screaming Woman
Let me tell you a story. There was a storm on the day my great-grandmother died.
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Exeat
I want to revisit every city I have been, and take you along this time. Rewrite all the sights, all the memories.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2013
I am to have this gold when you die. To buy ink for poems crumpled on the carpet purchased with your cancer. You’ll make nothing as a writer. But my materials are cheap. Each verse I write about you merely cost one life. They’re signed in blood. A deal we made together years ago.
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On Object and Actor
Questioning a binary understanding of women as either object or actor, Her portrays women as both.
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He Liked to Think He Was an Island
He often liked to think that he was an island, oceans away from the troglodytes of the continent…
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Partial Recall
What I’ve realized is that I shouldn’t get complacent – the best years of my life won’t necessarily come to me; I have to pursue them.
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Manuscription
I worry I will run out of words to explain you to myself but you teach me in the night, across my back you trace forgotten alphabets.
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Bone Tomahawk
In a filmmaking era when movies are increasingly designed, focus-tested, and audience-approved to please, “Bone Tomahawk” is strangely refreshing for refusing us our simple pleasures.
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More Than Vanity
Again and again, I told myself I wasn’t ashamed of my condition…. Yet alone, waiting for a McCosh nurse to take my weight, I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed by what the eating disorder had made of me.
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Trumpist for a Day
Going deep undercover into the terrified and terrifying world of Trump supporters and elderly grandparents.
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Don’t Let Your Friends Use Your iPhone
Even if their battery runs out and they really really need to check Snapchat.
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The Greatest Debate
Two art history majors argue the most crucial issue of our time: Which Princeton plastic water bottle is better?