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Election: On Brain Trauma, Queerness, and Digging for Old Coke Bottles in Cleveland
“We were confident we’d wake up into a business-as-usual capitalist democracy.”
Fast and Furious
de facto
thwack
Spaceballs
Family Feud
That
don’t let the rangers see you doing that
I wish I was there with you. I love youI miss you . . . scared about tonight
How did Italy survive Berlusconi? Why did Weimar crumble and the Third Reich ascend?
Rafael Frumkin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Medill School of Journalism. His first novel, The Comedown, was published by Henry Holt in 2018 to critical acclaim. His satirical second novel, Confidence, will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2023, and his collection, Bugsy and Other Stories, is slated to hit shelves in early 2024. He lives with his partner, two cats, and one dog in Carbondale, IL, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University.
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If I collect Oma’s memories, if I truly remember my grandmother, I too can retain what is slipping away.
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“How do I teach her letting go, when my hands are still gnarled in the shape of everything I’ve ever lost?”
Covid-19, Memory, and Remembering My Grandma
Can I trust the sparse memories in my long-Covid brain? If I don’t record this, will my Frankenstein-ed memories escape, just like Grandma’s did?