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In New York City, where each of these authors calls home, the idea of family is more intense than anywhere else, families improvised and blood, condensed by lack of space and intensity of attention, families narrowly escaped from and permanently surrounded by, memories haunted and warm, future full of possibility.
- Guest Editor, Chris Molnar
Nicodemus Nicoludis
a mantle of unknowing
born through this name this skin
these questions of the distance
between living
& going on
Mina Hamedi
The women in the family have a group conversation that never stops. Grandmother reads the messages and saves the photos but never writes anything.
Benny Morduchowitz
My mother’s now-very-religious old roommate’s niece chose not to date me. Do we get to choose our own cafeterias, or are our cafeterias chosen for us?
Sallie Fullerton
I’ve been in lots of relationships and I have friends, ex-lovers, family members and all that but I am really confronting the fact that family is no kind of organizing principle in my life. And yet, there was this term, “bloodline” and I thought, ‘so what does that mean?” So now it’s become this silly idea. It’s generative.
