Victor LaValle reads ‘Long Distance,’ an essay about the ‘most loving relationship’ of his early twenties – conducted solely by telephone – and on having sex in a new body, after losing 155 pounds.
Click on the player below to listen to Victor LaValle read his essay ‘Long Distance’. It is about the ‘most loving relationship’ of his early twenties – conducted solely by telephone – and on having sex in a new body, after losing 155 pounds.
Photograph © Alyssa Loh
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‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
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Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
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‘They couldn’t put their finger on exactly what it was they craved, but they knew it was very different to what they had.’
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Fiction by Miranda July.
‘Whatever porn is or is not, like dance it is rooted in the body.’
Saskia Vogel on the relationship between dance and pornography.
‘The eye wants to see its fill, the I wants to see how it feels.’
Saskia Vogel on the foundational stories of pornography.
‘Anniversaries can have an importance—a power over us—that we do not control.’
