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The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder

Dear Dr. Hanover, my Psychiatrist, I wrote you an email just now that was most certainly a testament—proof! Continue Reading The Email that ...

by Kirkley Mehndiratta | October 12, 2019October 12, 2019
Arts & Culture, Theater

Why? at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

Why?’ starts as an informal introduction to the theatre, with the actors claiming God created theatre on the seventh day. Continue Reading ...

by Anna Pook | August 22, 2019August 22, 2019
Arts & Culture

Stories in Ink: Litro Celebrates National Tattoo Day

If you’re looking to get inked this year, these are the artists to check out! Continue Reading Stories in Ink: Litro Celebrates National ...

by Litro | July 17, 2019July 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

No Big Thing: My Time as a Volunteer on Lesvos

Rough seas, as I say. Imagining the refugees today. Would they dare, would they know, would the smugglers stay silent about the high waves? ...

by Ivars Balkits | May 4, 2019May 3, 2019
Arts & Culture

Santa Fe Blooms

Candace and I stomp our feet to the rhythm of Alice Merton’s song. We smile, throwing our heads back at the performing drag queen on ...

by Pietje Kobus | April 6, 2019April 26, 2019
Arts & Culture

Austin

I thought the man was sleeping until I saw his dead stare. The top of his head was gone, leaving a hole ringed by wisps ...

by mejohnsonauthor | March 31, 2019May 3, 2019
Arts & Culture

Martoj, Martoj

While I learned how to clean and prepare and be a proper girl, George, Michael and Joseph, were playing video games in our shared bedroom. ...

by kshkreli | March 16, 2019April 6, 2019
Arts & Culture

The Land of Hope and Dreams: New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen, and DNA

I grew up in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, 40 miles northwest of Freehold, where Bruce Springsteen is from. A couple of miles away from my ...

by Geoff Watkinson | February 6, 2019April 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

April Wheeler Is My Literary Hero

“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvellous golden people somewhere…” Continue Reading April Wheeler Is My Literary ...

by Thomas Stewart | February 29, 2016March 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Questions, Questions…

What is the most annoying question you can ask a writer? It’s hard to zoom in on one because there are so many contenders for ...

by Vineetha Mokkil | February 5, 2016March 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Transparent Ghosts

I had a conversation with an old man who was a stranger a few weeks ago. He told me he had fought in the war. ...

by Thomas Stewart | January 13, 2016March 23, 2019
Arts & Culture, Literature

The Plucker, Re-Reading & Christmas

Every Christmas, for four years, I received a different book by Gerald Brom. The first was The Plucker, which is – as I like to ...

by Thomas Stewart | January 2, 2016March 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Books for Every Year

It’s that time of the year again. Everyone starting from the New York Times to your friendly neighbourhood bookstore owner is bunging “best ...

by Vineetha Mokkil | December 31, 2015March 23, 2019
Arts & Culture

Re-Reading AM Homes: Music For Torching

I dated a guy who once told me that only boring people get bored. Never become bored, he said, there’s too much to do – ...

by Thomas Stewart | December 5, 2015April 18, 2019
Arts & Culture

Where do you write?

Toni Morrison paints a vivid picture of the writer’s entry into the writing space in a 1993 interview with the Paris Review. “I always get ...

by Vineetha Mokkil | November 26, 2015November 26, 2015
Arts & Culture

Re-Reading AM Homes: The End of Alice

I’m ashamed to admit, it was the cover that intrigued me. I enjoyed the simplicity of it, the minimalist feel. The butterfly was in a ...

by Thomas Stewart | November 7, 2015November 7, 2015
Arts & Culture, On Writing

Essay Saturday: Read Out Loud

I’m waiting for my turn to read, sitting in a large room full of people, holding their copy of the anthology. Some of them are ...

by Thomas Stewart | October 31, 2015October 31, 2015
Arts & Culture

Essay Saturday: Rejection Letters and Brutal Honesty

Rejections come at night. When you’ve had a good day, sitting down to watch a good film, you get an e-mail and it’s that literary ...

by Thomas Stewart | October 24, 2015October 24, 2015
Arts & Culture

Let’s talk about the day we will die

“So, do you consider yourself Atheist?” I said, “No, I’d consider myself Agnostic. The idea that we die and that’s it, is too bleak to ...

by Thomas Stewart | October 3, 2015October 17, 2015
Arts & Culture, On Writing, The Litro Blog

Cigarettes & Coffee: Our Writer Perception

Tortured beasts, addicted to alcohol and drugs, full of whimsy and imagination, conjuring creations with their gut, their anger, using their addiction, their coffee and ...

by Thomas Stewart | September 9, 2015April 18, 2019

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