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Karen

Spotlight: A Thin Season / In My Travels

September 12, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Karen Corinne Herceg

A Thin Season (For a young man beheaded for listening to Western pop tunes in his father’s grocery store) It is a thin season culling the air of blue breath choked sudden as a sword at the throat of a young infidel the forbidden pop tune of his innocence still playing in the annals of […]

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Writers Read: Children of the Days by Eduardo Galeano

September 5, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Juliann Allison

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History consists of a series of 366 vignettes, one for each day of the Roman calendar year, not noticeably related to one another, which create a mosaic of fractured memories of human history. The volume continues the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano’s Hegelian approach to understanding and articulating Latin […]

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Anna van Schaap, Smoke Signals, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 48x36in

Spotlight: Say It Like You Mean It

August 28, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Anna van Schaap

I am interested in different forms of communication (verbal, written, body language, etc). I generally paint the female form in uncomfortable positions and circumstances to see if an idea, emotion, or critique can be communicated using bodies, symbols, and titles. People are gregarious by nature. We are not meant for solitary existence. Our need to affectively communicate with each other […]

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Sally Vogl

Spotlight: What I Brought Back / Freya at the Farmers’ Market / If an Egg Floats

August 21, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Sally Vogl

What I Brought Back Peace Corps Lesotho, 1980-82 I brought images of a motorcycle, a tsetututu, sputtering down pot-holed roads to a village where men stuff mint in their nostrils, women stretch their mouths in ululation, boys extend legs in Bruce Lee moves, and babies are secured on mothers’ backs by blankets with airplane designs. […]

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Jenny Bhatt

Spotlight: The Waiting

August 15, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Jenny Bhatt

My last living memory is of my husband carrying my half-conscious body away from the thick heat and clinging wetness of the rice field. Something has bitten my right heel, leaving a crescent of bloody marks. He places me on our cart, jumps on, and prods Sakhi, our cow, into a jingling trot. Sweat and […]

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Writers Read: A Field Guide for Immersion Writing by Robin Hemley

August 8, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Miriam González-Poe

A Field Guide for Immersion Writing is Robin Hemley’s non-fiction methodological primer for writers on immersion journalism. In this compilation, Mr. Hemley covers a gamut of approaches to tackling immersion-writing projects, using examples of his work and other writers’ works to apply the mechanics of the narrative process. His techniques cover advice for undertaking and refining […]

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Spotlight: Moorings / Walking the Dog in Autumn I Stop to Tie My Shoelace

August 1, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Emily Franklin

Moorings Suppose you say water. We’re on the boat, making for Babson Island, one of three tiny beach slabs that connects at high tide. We set anchor, mark the drift, account for wind, row to the shallows. This place has sand dollars. You find some, bring them to me. I will wrap them in tissue […]

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Writers Read: Dated Emcees by Chinaka Hodge

July 24, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Nikki San Pedro

On the Friday following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Chinaka Hodge performed selections from her newly released poetry book, Dated Emcees, at 826LA to benefit the literacy organization. With poems honoring Jordan Davis, references to Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant, and tributes to Tupac and Biggie, Hodge has no shortage of words for […]

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Loren Stephens

Spotlight: Burning Nettles

July 17, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Loren Stephens

The train ride from Osaka to Arashiyama took an hour. Noriko rested her head against her husband’s shoulder and drifted off into a light sleep. She was exhausted from long days working at the Tesagara Tea Room and taking care of their two-year-old son, Eiji. Disembarking at the station, Ichiro instructed the cab driver to […]

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Writers Read: Bending Genre “On Convention” by Margot Singer

July 10, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

In “On Convention,” Margot Singer is less interested in defining what creative nonfiction is, and more interested in what it is doing and what it can do. She seeks to understand the evolving nature of the art of the genre, and how it blurs the lines between the “conventions,” of good writing—an imitation of mimetic […]

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Scott Wiggerman

Spotlight: Each Time We Enter Costco / By Morning / Nothing of Me Will Survive

July 4, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Scott Wiggerman

Each Time We Enter Costco I cannot help myself. I have to say, “See that? Free hearing tests!” To which I add, “Can’t hear me?” He ignores that, so, “Eh? Eh? What’s that?” His brittle bearing flashes mad. The cart gets filled in silence. Stuff we do not need in ludicrous amounts: pintos, potato chips, […]

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Writers Read: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

June 25, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Heather Hewson

The great thing about graphic memoirs is that they tell a story with pictures and somehow capture a feeling or an expression that no words can explain. It’s tricky, though. Because the association that a graphic novel is a story of cartoons, the expectation is that the subject matter is fiction. With a graphic memoir, the […]

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Nancy Calef, CNN, oil on canvas, 36" x 48"

Spotlight: Peoplescapes

June 5, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Nancy Calef

My “Peoplescapes” are colorful and exaggerated narratives about the condition of today’s world. Our culture is designed to ignore certain fundamental truths, causing great obstacles to our continuing existence. Addressing these issues by capturing moments of ordinary life confronting us all, while sharply observing and commenting, I’m able to shine a light on these subjects […]

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Writers Read: Reeling Through Life by Tara Ison

May 29, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Rochelle Newman-Carrasco

In Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies, Tara Ison taps into her subconscious and squeezes out a rich stream of life lessons. Weaving her personal stories together with scenes from iconic films, Ison reflects on the “influence of film on [her] own authenticity” (5) and specifically examines […]

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EE Lampman

Spotlight: Longing, as dirge / Elegy / Epitaphs for a state you’ve never seen

May 22, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / EE Lampman

Longing, as dirge The wood in warp and disrepair has had its share of everything. Never drinking not even rye and absinthe puddled sickly on this old porch. No, the sazerac’s candy burn fails to impress this sagging terrace— it smolders on as coal beneath the eves. Although my foot glances toward his thigh and […]

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Writers Read: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

May 15, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Lauren Kinney

The palm-of-the-hand stories anthologized in this collection span decades of Yasunari Kawabata’s life, from 1923-1972, and far pre-date the recent moniker “flash fiction,” though they could be classified now using that label. Most of these stories are realistic, detailing families at home, strangers on the train, and past lovers’ meeting by chance. There are a […]

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Spotlight: The City Stargazers

May 8, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Rebecca Anderson

Bonnie started stripping the moment her bedroom door latched behind her. She undid her blouse buttons. The white fabric stuck to her back, and she peeled it off and let it crumple to the floor. She tossed it so that it sat in a small, sweaty mountain in the corner of her room. Next to […]

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Writers Read: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 1, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Meredith Arena

The much talked about Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is about murder—the murder of black people by white people in a country that has thrived, since its inception, on the abuse of black bodies. This thriving is economic, but it is also cultural and, therefore, part of our identity as Americans. Over […]

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Yoni Hammer-Kossoy

Spotlight: Lift / After the Rain / Caveat Emptor

April 24, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Yoni Hammer-Kossoy

Lift Up here even a slim wind sets the outstretched jib singing, but that doesn’t bother me any more than the crane’s height or cab’s close quarters. The way my son tells it, you’d think I lift a hundred tons on my back every day and build those buildings with my bare hands. I say […]

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Writers Read: The Art of Recklessness by Dean Young

April 17, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Josh Roark

I was hoping that at some point I would figure out what this book is about—maybe you are too. – from The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young (p. 153) It’s difficult to digest all of The Art of Recklessness into an annotation, probably by design.  Writer Dean Young often loses the reader with lines […]

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R.L. Gibson, Do I Know You, 2014. Xerography (mixed media), 16 X 20 in.

Spotlight: ‘Do I know you?’- A Xerography Series

April 10, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / R.L. Gibson

In one year, my father died in a crash due to complications of diabetes; I had two surgeries reserved for women 20 years my senior; and I became the guardian for my 92-year-old Grandmother Emma, in the end stages of dementia. My mother, and each of her eight siblings, had diabetes and high blood pressure by age 50, bunions by 55, some form of cancer by 60. […]

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Writers Read: Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz

April 3, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Melissa Greenwood

LA-based writer Wendy C. Ortiz writes about her loss of innocence in her debut memoir Excavation, which has received rave reviews since its 2014 release. Ortiz’s writing is rife with figurative language like simile, metaphor, personification, parallel structure, alliteration, and repetition, but it is also incredibly self-reflective. Whether it’s the temporal distance that gives her […]

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Spotlight: The Last Cigarette

March 27, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Paolo Zardi, Translated by Matilda Colarossi

On September 26, 2009, at about a quarter past one in the morning, while outside, a cloudy night sky was closing in on Padua, he, lying on his king-sized futon next to his profoundly asleep wife, was shaken by a violent cough. Eyes staring into the dark bedroom, he was overcome by the age-old fear […]

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Writers Read: The Ecstatic by Victor Lavelle

March 21, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Miriam Gonzales-Poe

The Ecstatic is Victor Lavalle’s intriguing debut novel cataloguing two months in the life of Anthony James, a 23-year-old horror-movie loving, obese, unstable, socially inept, obsessed with cleaning, sometimes-schizophrenic, college dropout. Anthony’s narrative begins on September 25, 1995, when he is abruptly rescued from “living wild in his apartment” (3) in Central New York and hauled […]

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Writers Read: The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

March 6, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Rochelle Newman

Rebecca Solnit gets the title for her work The Faraway Nearby from Georgia O’Keefe. “From the faraway nearby” was how O’Keefe would sign letters to the people she loved after moving from New York City to rural New Mexico. Says Solnit, “It was a way to measure physical and psychic geography together” (108). It is […]

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Spotlight: Maranda on Fire

February 29, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Steve Nelson

I started firewalking after seeing a picture of a monk burn himself to death, but of course it’s more complicated than that. The monk came to history class where we were studying Vietnam, talking about what a mistake it had been, and about the protests against the war, in our country, and over there, where they […]

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Writers Read: The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

February 21, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Diana Odasso

Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World is a historical fiction novel set between the 1750s and 1810s, encompassing the time frame of the Haitian revolution. Carpentier creates an alternative history to the popular narrative of Toussaint L’Ouverture. The story is narrated by Ti Noël, an uneducated slave of the French plantation owner, M. Lenormand […]

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Jeanette May, Fox, 2013, Archival Pigment Print, 24 x 36 in.

Spotlight: Morbidity & Mortality

February 15, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Jeanette May

Designed to be murdered by your dog or cat, pet toys appear as dead bodies in these crime scene photographs. Morbidity & Mortality responds to the current popular fascination with cinematic murder and forensics. Contemporary films and CSI-style television programs reveal an obsession with corpses—specifically, artfully composed images of the deceased […]

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Writers Read: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

February 7, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / Melissa Greenwood

In the bestselling medical ethics-centered nonfiction work The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot uses primary resources, including one thousand-plus hours of personal interviews, to piece together a life—Henrietta Lacks’s—lost too soon to cervical cancer yet forever immortalized, thanks to the science of cell culture. Like a wedding cake, the book is rich […]

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Spotlight: Telling it Slant / Counting on an Axe / Disturbance with Walnut

January 31, 2016/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2016 / James Bell

o there is Michelangelo up the ladder
on the platform
laid on his back
wishing he chipped at a piece of sculpture instead…

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

Today’s course:

Where Are You From?

August 5, 2022/in Blog / Majella Pinto
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The Old Folks’ Home

July 22, 2022/in Blog / Karen Gaul Schulman
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Peace, Love, and a lot of Loud Rock & Roll

June 17, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Sunee Lyn Foley
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy
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Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy
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The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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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 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

The variety in this issue speaks not only to the eclectic world we inhabit but to the power of the human spirit. We live in an uncertain world. In the U.S., we’re seeing mass shootings daily. Across the world, we’re still very much in a pandemic, some being trapped in their homes for weeks on end, others struggling to stay alive in hospitals. War continues to wage in Ukraine. Iran and North Korea are working diligently to make nuclear weapons. The list goes on. Still, we have artists who are willing and able to be vulnerable with one another, to share stories and art to help us try and make sense of our world.

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