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A former professor and stripper on sex, work, power, and pleasure.
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Baba Yaga’s Burlesque; Or, How a Random Naked Man on a Bike Ride Changed My Life (opens the original)
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Read Part I here. ☆Read Part II here.☆In the VIP room, strobe lights scatter neon shadows across partitioned couches streaked with human grease. Condensation drips down rocks glasses leaving swollen circles on l
Art is a Wobbly Compass (opens the original)
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What does art do for the living?I often write about desire’s ghosts as grief personified or the immaterial made flesh. But the world of spirit not only refers to supernatural beings or the breath of god in faith traditions. Spirit and its etymological ancestor spiritus, or soul in Latin, both derive from the root verb spirare, meaning to breathe.Regardless of
In the Twilight of a Nation (opens the original)
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Flickering comets zigzag like fig-drunk scarabs careening their unwieldy bodies across a slate sky before crashing with a thunderclap screech on concrete. Wind scatters cinders of strontium, aluminum, and copper—the chemical confetti for this booming parade they call a holiday. They as in trigger-happy charlatans selling snake oil to snakes writhing in overwatered grass growing food deserts. They as in makeshift pyrotechnic chemists effecting sound from an energetic explosion of trapped dreams r
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