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Gender Failure
Gender Failure
I started to grow a beard when I was around fourteen. It didn’t happen overnight, no Kafkaesque horror. It was slow and steady, more terrifying by half. My gender identity did not match this physical manifestation. I fought it as hard as I could with depilatories, bleaches, home wax kits, and tweezers. Spent countless hours
sucks that this needs to be said at all
sucks that this needs to be said at all
Order THE SNARLING GIRL
Order THE SNARLING GIRL
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Interview
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Interview
WAMC The Book Show
WAMC The Book Show
In Elisa Albert’s highly-anticipated new novel, “Human Blues,” musician Aviva Rosner’s course cracks and crumbles the harder she pounds the pavement. Aviva w...
Excerpt from WANTING: Writing About Desire
Excerpt from WANTING: Writing About Desire
I already had a baby. But I wanted another.
BOOKS
BOOKS
n+1
n+1
She called all the local doulas and hired me because I was cheapest. I still wasn’t sure whether this was a pastime or calling or business or what, but I was leaning toward pastime/calling, as I had neither the desire nor the bandwidth to hustle in this realm. So I asked for the tiniest of honorariums. My fellow doulas got wind of this and read me the riot act, because I was undermining the whole community. We all had to charge within the same ballpark. No one cared whether this was my calling or pastime or what; just please charge the standard goddamn rate. I apologized. I hadn’t wanted money to be a thing, but money is always a thing.
Early Autobiography Via Proximity to Fame
Early Autobiography Via Proximity to Fame
Old Lady 2079
Old Lady 2079
Fuck Denying the Mind/Body Connection
Fuck Denying the Mind/Body Connection
The long history of hating on “woo.”
Fuck Pathologizing Women
Fuck Pathologizing Women
We need to pay more attention to the way our culture abuses and isolates new mothers.
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Rone Shavers
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Rone Shavers
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Joshua Cohen
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Joshua Cohen
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Gregory Pardlo
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Gregory Pardlo
Elisa Albert talks with poet and writer Gregory Pardlo about his recent memoir Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition & Manhood in America.- - -GREGORY PARDLO is ...
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Shalom Auslander
How Hard Could it Be!? w/Shalom Auslander
Elisa Albert chats with Shalom Auslander about his new novel, Mother for Dinner.- - -Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret...
One of THOSE PPL
One of THOSE PPL
Novelist Albert lives in Upstate New York. Here’s a sampling of the unanticipated anti-Semitism she’s been hearing from people in her circle.
Refuge
Refuge
May 2, 2017 – When I first read Alice Herndan-Zuckmayer’s The Farm in the Green Mountains, a blustering butthole had just been elected President of the United States of America, and everyone was freaking out.
On/Against Ambition
On/Against Ambition
Notes on—and against—ambition.
Seasons of Albany, pt 1
Seasons of Albany, pt 1
Proposition for P. Roth
Proposition for P. Roth
Time Magzine Boobie-festo
Time Magzine Boobie-festo
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