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Drunk with Insomnia
I haven’t been able to sleep for a while now. During these oppressive nights when I feel like the only one awake in the entire world, I mostly lie flat on my back wondering why sleep has abandoned me and like a child I want to cry. More often I find it hard to concentrate [...]
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With out getting too academic about it, I love James Baldwin. I loved him before I knew I was gay and fell even deeper in love with him once I acknowledged my own sexuality. Never in all of my voracious reading as a teenager had I encountered, up to that point, anyone who wrote about [...]
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This weekend I traveled to a place I know very little about: North Korea. It was not a journey I’d expected to take. In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick’s affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. Earlier in the [...]
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