HeyJaredTalk Vomit
Talking books, writing & literary magazine publishing. By Monica Benevides, the editor of Talk Vomit.
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Omg I found this picture of you online (opens the original)
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Just kidding, but if you were excited about clicking the phishing link that would normally be attached to an email of this subject, you can check out our submissions instead. They close on 10/1!This week Monica texted me a really interesting bit about nostalgia that she’s going to work into a piece for this coming addition. Annoying really, because now it feels better than anything I was going to talk about. So I did what anyone in my position would do. I googled “Nostalgia,” scrolled as fast as
Remember that! (threatening) (opens the original)
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Over the last several years, I’ve become my family’s memory keeper. Or, at least, I’ve grown conscious of the role. Did you know, I say to my four younger siblings, that grandma met grandpa through her first husband? That our great-aunt was clairvoyant? That once they lost the house? Or that we used to do Christmas with cousins?But no, they didn’t know, and they certainly don’t remember, not ever. There are six years between myself and my closest-in-age siblings; 17 between me and the youngest.
Submissions are open! (opens the original)
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Evening!!We’re nudging you these evening to share exciting news: submissions for Talk Vomit’s winter edition are officially open. The theme: “Remember that” — and yes, it’s up to interpretation. What is the cost of memory? What is our relationship to archives? Think: correspondence, photographs, diaries, and regular old memories stored in our brains. What does it mean to allow a memory to pass into oblivion, and is that sometimes for the best when we consider the pitfalls of nostal
What’s with throwaway endings? (opens the original)
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Mary and I both recently read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Wikipedia says it is the best-selling mystery of all time. If you’re not familiar, it is basically Clue. A group of guests are invited under enticing yet dubious circumstances to a remote island and one-by-one they are murdered, each in a different way. The twist (spoiler) is that the murderer is one of the guests who, in an attempt to evade suspicion, fakes his own death partway through the novel. This is revealed at the
(Launch) Party Report, first edition (opens the original)
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Picture this: I’ve forgotten the decorations at home, Mary and I are printing Proust questionnaire worksheets on purple and yellow paper, and putting together a charcuterie board and themed batch cocktails faster than any person ever should. It’s warm, but not too humid. I am nervous sweating even though the purple velvet dress I’d thrifted in grad school is more of a nod to clothing than actual clothing. There is obligatory stress about headcount. Signs are being fastened to doors with directio
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