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John Chang,Untitled_1, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 60x60x2 in

Spotlight: Untitled Mixed Media Portfolio

December 25, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

I was born and raised in Shanghai. By the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping initiated a more open-door policy, but I still had a deep desire to experience America as well as Western culture. Immigrating to Boston to study art in graduate school, I discovered a more complex society than I had imagined. Longing for a democratic system, I wasn’t prepared for the magnitude of consumption […]

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À La Carte: To All the Daughters

December 11, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Sara Voigt

[creative nonfiction] To My Daughter, and All the Daughters, This is the letter I should have gotten from my mother, and that she should have gotten from her mother, and that should have been passed down through the ages like baking cloths, or photo albums, or funeral cards. It is the letter that tells you, […]

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Litdish: Dana Johnson, Author

December 6, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Dana Johnson is the writer of the short story collections Break Any Woman Down and In the Not Quite Dark, and the coming-of-age novel Elsewhere, California, which was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, and her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Callaloo, […]

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Shannon Connor Winward

Spotlight: At the Coffee Office

November 27, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Sara Voigt

[creative nonfiction] I should be writing. You are not here. For the next one hundred and twenty minutes, you are not my job. “Are you going to the coffee office?” you asked on the way to preschool, your cute phrase for what I do. Yes, yes. Three days a week, three slivers of a life […]

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Writers Read: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

November 20, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh is a work of transgressive fiction that follows the life of heroin user Mark Renton, a.k.a. “Rents,” and his friends known as the Skag Boys. The novel takes place in Scotland with occasional trips to London. Trainspotting is told from several different points of views and includes a revolving cast of […]

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Michael T. Young

Spotlight: Reading Langston Hughes

November 13, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Lily Caraballo

[poetry] I’m on a bus reading Langston Hughes’s articles from The Chicago Defender and I realize it’s like I have no shadow. I’m on a bus sitting where I want to and in this article it’s 1946, and Hughes is in a restaurant and the hostess insists on seating him at the back of an […]

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Litdish: Rick Bass, Author & Activist

November 6, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

With a background in geology, Rick Bass splits his time between environmental activism and writing. His work crosses genres and includes non-fiction, essays, novels, and short stories. You can find his work widely published and acclaimed in journals and magazines such as Esquire, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, […]

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Chelsea Bayouth, Bluegrass, 2011, colored pencil on paper, 8.5x11 in

Spotlight: Art for Your Existential Crisis

October 30, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

The art in this series, “Art for Your Existential Crisis,” is an ongoing project that began in 2011, when I was in my late twenties and found myself deeply pondering and often immobilized by the most heavy-hitting questions we ask ourselves. Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? […]

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À La Carte: Birth Wrong

October 23, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

[creative nonfiction] When I get to the top of Masada there are the canyons and there are the fortress ruins and there is the desert that stereotypically stretches out like a blanket location designed to set the scene for biblical abyss. There is this moment we are forced to be in together, all of us […]

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Padma Prasad

Spotlight: Night of the Bread Knife

October 16, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

[fiction] It was a young and tiny family—a wife, a husband, a three-month old son. They moved into the apartment on the tenth floor of a building which was one of the original high-rises in Chennai. There were six apartments on each floor around a central corridor into which the lifts opened. The corridor was […]

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Writers Read: Hunger by Roxane Gay

October 9, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

Roxane Gay’s Hunger is a powerful memoir that depicts a very personal narrative while also serving as a work of criticism, exploring society’s inability to see or accommodate the needs of the extremely obese. Her examples range from descriptions of public and private erasure, the dearth of public accommodation, and so much more. In simple […]

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Sarah Allen

Spotlight: Cocoon

October 2, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

[fiction] They called girls like her butterflies. At least the moms on Instagram did. Posting pictures of toddlers with low-set ears and thick necks and little girls with strangely puffed hands and feet. They used hashtags like #butterflygirl or #turnersyndrome. More often than not it was photos of blankets or baby toys bought for daughters […]

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Litdish: Jeremy Radin, Poet

September 25, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Jeremy Radin is a poet, actor, and teacher living in Los Angeles. He’s appeared on several television shows including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, CSI, ER, and Zoey 101, in films such as Terrence Malick’s The New World and Wrestlemaniac, and in many plays […]

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Brooke Sauer, The More Than Human World, 2017, handmade collage on paper, 12 x 12 in

Spotlight: In Search of Treasure

September 18, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

I live in Los Angeles and spend a lot of time exploring in nature when I’m not working in the studio or teaching. Regardless of what medium I use, my work has a whimsical quality and embodies my love of the outdoors and my awe of the natural world. These pieces are from a large collection of hand cut collages […]

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À La Carte: People Going to Work

September 11, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

[fiction] The summer I worked at the casino pool, we took shuttles to and from the employee entrance. We were not allowed to park on property, only at a parking lot on the other side of the highway that added forty minutes, unpaid, to our workday. Sometimes in the mornings if I was groggy, or hung over from two-for-one margaritas from the Paradise Cantina, I walked onto the shuttle first without letting graveyard out. I weaved through them down the aisle, sunglasses on, somewhat ashamed yet inoculated to their glares.

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Jessica Mehta

Spotlight: Owl of Forest Park / Jackson Street

September 4, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Korilynn Kessler

Owl of Forest Park Early Saturdays, before the dawn, before the morning birds, I walked the trails of Forest Park beyond the zoo, crushed the arteries of Hoyt Arboretum beneath my spreading feet, turned the fallen petals from the rose garden to shaving peels. It was here, in the darkness of Portland mornings that I […]

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Writers Read: How the Body Works the Dark by Derrick C. Brown

August 28, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Dearest Soon, I think I may be in love with you, Soon. The opening lines of Derrick C. Brown’s latest collection of love poems, How the Body Works the Dark, reveal the heart of his poetry in a sincere, simple declaration. Brown writes about love the way all poets should. His understated tone, diction, and […]

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Spotlight: Sonnet II: We’re Not in Chinatown Anymore / Sonnet XI: Fast Paces of Street Market Life

August 21, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Douglas Menagh

[poetry] Sonnet II: We’re Not in Chinatown Anymore Philly’s Chinatown has no Hollywood, just a bunch of ripped up movie billboards, blockbusters translated into Chinese, signs right in front of the bookshop where I wait: my father is buying his zodiac books, fortunes for the new year. He’s psychic— it’s the Tiger telling his Snake […]

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Writers Read: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

August 14, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress is a quintessential hard-boiled mystery novel. Mosley’s protagonist, Easy Rawlins, is on par with two of the genre’s most notable characters, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade and Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer. Set in 1948 Los Angeles, the sharply written first person narrative pays homage to its traditional genre conceits. […]

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Spotlight: Letters From Indiana

August 7, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Douglas Menagh

[creative nonfiction] My mom sent me letters from Indiana. Stacks of cards with flowers and curly, purple ink inside. Breathtaking cursive spanned the card. My small hands touched the parts where she’d written sweet girl or my name. She had her first nervous breakdown when I was six years old, and was admitted to a […]

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Writers Read: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

July 31, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Cormac McCarthy’s third novel Child of God, based loosely on an infamous murder in Sevier County, Tennessee, portrays a cycle of extreme isolation, perversity, and violence as representative of the natural human experience. The novel tells the story of Lester Ballard, “a child of God much like yourself perhaps,” who, facing a series of unfortunate […]

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Brandi Read, The Oppression of Flora, 2015, Medium, Size

Spotlight: Unset in Stone

July 24, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Douglas Menagh

Stories from Classical mythology have pervaded European culture. My work seeks to address how mythology and the retelling of myths serve to reflect, reinforce, and influence our gender ideologies. Our perception of women is directly affected by how they are portrayed in art, from the stories and poems from antiquity to the way we see women and girls currently depicted in contemporary art and […]

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Writers Read: Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat

July 17, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Create Dangerously begins with an essay about the public executions of Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa in Port-au-Prince. Drouin and Numa were Haitians who had met while living in New York City and had returned to Haiti as part of a guerrilla army that intended to take down the Duvalier dictatorship. François Duvalier—Papa Doc—made sure […]

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Irene Vasquez

Spotlight: Freehanding Maps of Minnesota / Canción Bilingüe

July 10, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Avril Stewart

[poetry] Freehanding Maps of Minnesota I have called you feather down in my sleep, christened you the verge of memory, painted your rivers in the rain. I have written the scene before I even arrive; The breeze floats just enough to rustle the edges of the paper, lines only tenuously drawn. Do your lakes ever […]

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Writers Read: Things That Are by Amy Leach

July 3, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

Things That Are is Amy Leach’s whimsical collection of nonfiction essays about the natural world. These essays blend poetry, nonfiction, and nature writing—bending the genre and exploring the boundaries of what form creative nonfiction can take. It’s through the unexpected and illuminating prose that Leach seeks to create a relationship between the reader and the […]

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Denise Tolan

Spotlight: Because You are Dead

June 26, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Raj Persad

[fiction] You don’t know I have a picture of you, because you are dead. Before you were dead, I wondered what it would be like to be trapped in your mouth for eternity, like a wedded Jonah. Whenever you said honey or Leeza or, more likely, Lisa, I would feel the rib cage constrict. I […]

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Writers Read: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

June 19, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Josh Roark

There is a real casual ease by which the poems in Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth present themselves. They are not struggling to find a voice, but are grounded firmly in their style and language. This little chapbook feels solid, weighty, and Shire does a fine job of creating consistency in such a short […]

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King: A Street Story

Writers Read: King: A Street Story by John Berger

June 5, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Josh Roark

The blurb for the paperback printing of King reveals the title character, our narrator, is canine. But John Berger blurs species lines in this poignant tale of twenty-four hours in the life of the marginalized inhabitants of a French homeless camp. With Berger’s spare, lyric prose, King is granted first person point of view. He […]

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Emma Sloley

Spotlight: My Sweet Amygdala

May 29, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Vicki Miller

[fiction] What would you do if you weren’t afraid? I walk out to the car in a state of unusual calm. In the house over there, which I share with my husband and son, my husband has just now informed me that he isn’t in love with me anymore, that in fact he is in […]

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Writers Read: Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

May 22, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Josh Roark

Night Sky With Exit Wounds is woven from deep threads—the experience of fleeing war and becoming a refugee, migration and the sea, parent-child relationships, and queer sexuality. Life is complex. Layers of emotion, memory, and transformation unite in this journey of one human being. Vuong’s stories and structures made me feel huge possibilities in poetry. […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Behind the Eight Ball: How to Become Homeless in the Richest Country in the World

June 13, 2025/in Blog / Michelle Hampton
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Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Michelle Hampton
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Michelle Hampton
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Michelle Hampton
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Michelle Hampton
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Michelle Hampton
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Lizzy Young
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Lizzy Young
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Caroline Shannon Karasik
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Word From the Editor

The state of the world breaks my heart every day. Broken hearted, I stay online. I can’t log off. Because my career and schooling are all done remotely, I tend to struggle with boundaries regarding screen time, with knowing when to break away.

Like many of you, I have been spilling my guts online to the world because the guts of the world keep spilling. None of it is pretty. But it’s one of the things that, having searched for basically my entire life, I found that tempers the chaos that lives rent free inside my head.

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