In 2014, we began running a biweekly series of essays to complement our Sunday Stories. This page collects them, as well as earlier essays that have appeared on Vol.1 Brooklyn.
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2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
Eden Consenstein, “New Age Now” | March 27, 2013
Lisa Wells, “She’s a Grand Old Flag: A Diary of Small Town America” | July 3, 2013
Zachary Lipez, “Why We Need to Borrow Your Drumset” | August 21, 2013
Ryan Chang, “Kleist and Kleist, or Failure as Transcendence” | September 12, 2013
Justin Maurer, “Aberdeen Skins Never Say Die” | October 8, 2013
Robert Wohner, “Meeting Kennedy” | October 16, 2013
Anna Prushinskaya, “Facebook Cancer” | March 12, 2014
Wendy C. Ortiz, “Girlfriend” | March 26, 2014
John F. Kersey, “Some Notes on the Emergence of ASMR Theory” | April 9, 2014
Jenna Clark Embrey, “The Passion of St. Joan” | April 23, 2014
Victoria Comella, “What to Do When Your Heart Explodes” | May 7, 2014
Robin Grearson, “Two Guns” | June 4, 2014
Betty Rosen, “Pressing” | June 18, 2014
Ruth Gila Berger, “Certain Words Are Spider Webs” | July 2, 2014
Lori Jakiela, “Rough Air” | July 16, 2014
Dave Newman, “Ditch Digging for the Butcher Lie” | July 30, 2014
Alex Kalmaroff, “Kizhi Pogost” | August 27, 2014
Stuart Ross, “What’s a Travel Essay?” | September 10, 2014
A. A. Weiss, “Escape From Moldova” | September 24, 2014
Laryssa Wirstiuk, “Engagement Tofu” | October 8, 2014
Gerald Majer, “Bare Trees” | October 22, 2014
Jessica Machado, “Finding the Magic in Macy’s” | November 19, 2014
Kate Martin, “Date Night” | December 3, 2014
Rahawa Haile, “After Eric Garner” | December 5, 2014
Tobias Carroll, “Jason Molina Sings the Word ‘Endless’” | December 9, 2014
Christine Gosnay, “All of Us” | December 17, 2014
Kelly Shetron, “A Year in New York” | January 14, 2015
Jessica Gross, “Vermont” | January 28, 2015
Tabitha Blankenbiller, “Aunt Eva Wore Hats” | February 11, 2015
Micah Ling, “The Poetry of Mail” | February 25, 2015
Fiona Helmsley, “Souvenirs” | March 11, 2015
Sarah Maria Medina, “The Girl in the Box” | March 25, 2015
Maura Roosevelt, “Stranger in a Freaky Land: Reading Miranda July in Los Angeles” | April 8, 2015
N. Michelle AuBuchon, “The Open Call” | April 22, 2015
Anna Qu, “Suburban Vertigo” | May 6, 2015
Glynn Pogue, “Limbo” | May 20, 2015
Michael Stutz, “The Weather of My Youth” | June 3, 2015
Andrew Bomback, “Welcome to All That” | June 17, 2015
Paula Bomer, “My Father’s Suicide and ‘The Days of Atonement’” | June 23, 2015
Nicholas Ward, “Sweat” | July 1, 2015
Lynn Steger Strong, “We Have No Money” | July 15, 2015
Jane Liddle, “Death and Daydreams” | July 29, 2015
Stephanie Feldman, “Failing in Art and in Life” | August 12, 2015
Ashley P. Taylor, “Middles” | August 26, 2015
Andrea Della Monica, “Kool Cigarettes” | September 9, 2015
Karen Lillis, “Lori Ellison and the Death of a Comrade” | September 10, 2015
Daniel Browne, “Substitute For Tears” | September 23, 2015
Tippy Rex, “Reading Out Loud” | October 7, 2015
Katherine Huff, “Future, Present, Past” | October 21, 2015
Christine Gosnay, “I Wear the Pants” | November 4, 2015
JoAnna Novak, “Presents” | November 18, 2015
Fiona Helmsley, “Disavowing Victim” | December 2, 2015
Tim Waldron, “A Better Personal Canon” | December 16, 2015
Patrick Thornton, “Door Wide Open” | December 30, 2015
Ilana Garon, “Untwinning” | January 13, 2016
Douglas Light, “Roadie” | January 28, 2016
Sarah Herrington, “Coasting” | February 10, 2016
Kim Liao, “The Attic” | February 24, 2016
Devin Kelly, “What Could’ve Happened: On Thought in Fiction” | March 9, 2016
Gessy Alvarez, “Cancer and the MFA” | March 23, 2016
Donald Quist, “Till Next Time, Take Care of Yourselves and Each Other“ | April 9, 2016
Jessica Kashiwabara, “The Psychic” | April 23, 2016
Neil Scotten, “The Front” | May 4, 2016
Daniel Elder, “Sister’s Community Hardware” | May 18, 2016
Tess Scriptunas, “Fabienne, Ma Mère“ | June 1, 2016
Drew Nellins Smith, “Documentaries Taught Me How to Confess” | June 14, 2016
Emmanuel Adolf Alzuphar, “Canvas: Pianist Robert Glasper’s Incredible Jazz of Black Youth” | June 15, 2016
Daria Rae, “Digestion of Doubt” | June 29, 2016
Matthew Gavin Frank, “On Barbecued Ribs and Fallacious Independence” | July 1, 2016
Mike Faloon, “Fuel Consumption Way Too Fast” | July 20, 2016
Andrea Della Monica, “Honor Thy Father” | August 3, 2016
Micah Ling, “Eat ’em Beat ’em” | August 17, 2016
Lillian Ann Slugocki, “Requiem For Brooklyn and My Late Brother” | August 31, 2016
Terry Barr, “Listen to What the Man Said” | September 14, 2016
Fiona Helmsley, “My Idol Hates Me” | September 28, 2016
Jill Gallagher, “The Roof” | October 12, 2016
Anne Valente, “Writing the Midwest” | October 17, 2016
Kait Heacock, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Titles” | October 19, 2016
Jerry Portwood, “Xarli and His Dangerous Body Parts” | October 24, 2016
Libby Leonard, “How to Be With Others” | October 26, 2016
Justin Maurer, “White Light” | December 14, 2016
Elizabeth Powell, “I Am So Not a Throggmorton” | January 11, 2017
Jason Christian, “Sometimes We Need A Guide” | January 25, 2017
Cassandra Morrison, “Ways to Become An Other Woman.” | February 8, 2017
Megan Kirby, “No Place Else” | February 22, 2017
Stephanie Jimenez, “On the Poetry of Isaac Brock” | March 8, 2017
Joe Bardin, “Showbiz” | March 22, 2017
Adrienne Celt, “Midnight in the Garden of Women” | April 5, 2017
Emily Weitzman, “The 6:52” | April 26, 2017
Oliver Zarandi, “We Live Above The Mutilated Floor” | May 10, 2017
Kate Jayroe, “Cleveland St” | May 24, 2017
Amy Bernhard, “The End of Something” | June 7, 2017
Rachel Veroff, “On Love and Catherine Deneuve” | June 21, 2017
Gabino Iglesias, “Fear and Loathing on the Road to Santa Fe” | June 27, 2017
Melissa Wiley, “Fruitless Forest” | July 5, 2017
Nancy Hightower, “Multiple Acts of Abandonment” | July 19, 2017
Mishka Shubaly, “Dancing to Mark Lanegan’s ‘Gargoyle.’” | August 2, 2017
Micah Ling, “Filling the Holes” | August 23, 2017
Anna Cabe, “‘Do You Hear the Train?’” | September 20, 2017
Brett Derouin, “Dear Édouard: I’m dreaming of depression” | September 27, 2017
Ada Carter, “Sketches” | October 11, 2017
Jaime Fountaine, “19, 16, and 1” | October 25, 2017
Rebecca van Laer, “The Wretched Ones: Love in the Time of AIM” | November 8, 2017
Dmitry Samarov, “The Vivian Mire (Revisited)” | November 14, 2017
Emma Sklar, “The Smoky Notes of Consent” | November 29, 2017
Keegan Lester, “[tour diary: huntington w.va]” | December 6, 2017
Jen Michalski, “The Edge of Thirteen” | December 20, 2017
Afsheen Farhadi, “Stars in a Galaxy of Our Own Making” | January 10, 2018
Michelle Lyn King, “Imagine Me and You, I Do” | January 24, 2018
Alison B. Hart, “The Blue House” | February 7, 2018
Ashley P. Taylor, “Pollyanna Problems” | February 21, 2018
Kait Heacock, “Glossophobia” | February 27, 2018
Sarah Kasbeer, “Orcas in Space” | March 7, 2018
Martha Grover, “The Starfish” | March 21, 2018
Osama Shehzad, “Merge Conflict” | April 4, 2018
Andrew Schenker, “70-92” | April 18, 2018
Sean H. Doyle, “Pine America” | May 2, 2018
Julia Conrad, “24 Hours in Cremona” | May 16, 2018
Ashley P. Taylor, “Memory Palace” | June 6, 2018
Stephen Green, “Places” | June 20, 2018
Vanessa Blakeslee, “The Great Love Ambush” | July 5, 2018
Angela Brussel, “Dress Up” | July 18, 2018
Daniel Bowman Jr, “Suit” | August 8, 2018
Nate Waggoner, “Caricatures” | August 15, 2018
Andrew Bomback, “Our Vision of Sweatheart” | August 29, 2018
Sarah Van Bonn, “Methods of Transport” | September 12, 2018
Alice Riddell, “Inventory of my Bag” | October 3, 2018
Brandon Caro, “Mark” | October 17, 2018
Susan Harlan, “The Newspaper Clippings” | November 14, 2018
Henry Stimpson, “Optative Bop: Ping-Pong in Life and Literature” | November 28, 2018
Linnie Greene, “Fantastic Man” | December 19, 2018
Rachel Ann Brickner, “The Back of the Box” | January 2, 2019
Joshua James Amberson, “Corrective” | January 16, 2019
Tabitha Blankenbiller, “Fangs” | January 30, 2019
Emily Weitzman, “Cork” | February 13, 2019
Aaron Shulman, “The Enchantments of Felicidad Blanc” | February 26, 2019
N. Michelle AuBuchon, “Tell Me How Much You Love It” | February 27, 2019
Jonathan Warner, “Chasing Uncle Park” | March 21, 2019
Alex DiFrancesco, “My Father’s Face” | April 3, 2019
Nate Waggoner, “Roy” | April 17, 2019
Dorothy Bendel, “A Track List for Piercing Tongues” | May 1, 2019
Eva Dunsky, “Peaceful, The World Lets Me Down” | May 15, 2019
Lisa Calcasola, “Firsts” | May 29, 2019
Rax King, “On Springsteen and Other Fathers” | June 19, 2019
Luna Adler, “Of Rats and Men” | June 26, 2019
Grace Elliott, “Personal Essay” | July 10, 2019
Patrick Kosiewicz, “Epitaph For Steve Cannon” | July 23, 2019
Karen Eileen Sikola, “End of the Dog Days” | July 24, 2019
Jessica Vestuto, “Self-Portraits and Empty Frames in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum” | August 7, 2019
Luke Wiget, “We Used To” | August 21, 2019
Nate Waggoner, “Steve Groove” | September 4, 2019
Stuart Ross, “In What Year Does Your Semiautobiographical Masterpiece Take Place?” | September 12, 2019
Filiz Turhan, “’Calamity and Despair’” | September 18, 2019
Joanna Stoberock, “Sunshine Gothic” | September 24, 2019
Molly Beach Murphy, “A Quarter Cup” | October 2, 2019
Erin Ambrose, “The archeologist/my body in archeology” | October 16, 2019
Grace Lu, “Becoming Tokyo Rose” | October 30, 2019
Sam Farahmand, “Lo and Behold” | November 19, 2019
Ben Miller, “The Rock in the Grate” | November 20, 2019
Janice Lee, “Books Are Not Products, They Are Bridges: Challenging Linear Ideas of Success in Literary Publishing” | December 4, 2019
Susannah Felts, “A Yellow Thread, or On Obsession” | December 11, 2019
Sean Gandert, “Why You Should Write With a Cat” | January 9, 2020
Joe Winkler, “Sitting Shiva for Elizabeth Wurtzel” | January 15, 2020
Vanessa Blakeslee, “Country Medicine” | January 22, 2020
Audrey Moyce, “Types of Infinity” | February 12, 2020
Campbell Copland, “A Natural History of Vulnerability” | February 26, 2020
John Yohe, “On Teaching Again” | March 11, 2020
Monica Macansantos, “The Power of a Vacant House” | March 25, 2020
Elizabeth Kadetsky, “Asking Permission, or, My Education in Copyright Law” | March 31, 2020
Susan Rebecca White, “Working Title, or, How a Novel Is Full of False Starts” | April 2, 2020
Freda Epum, “Liquid Stories: Writing & Teaching the Personal as a POC in White Literary Spaces” | April 8, 2020
Kathe Koja, “The Normal Strange” | April 28, 2020
Jennifer Spiegel, “Holy Ground” | April 29, 2020
Joshua Bohnsack, “Mountain” | May 6, 2020
Amy Bobeda, “The Lovers” | May 27, 2020
Greg Mania, “Tour or No Tour” | June 17, 2020
Amy Kiger-Williams, “You Never Know” | July 1, 2020
William Lessard, “Sopranos Variations” | July 15, 2020
Keith Rosson, “Small and Quiet and Brave” | July 25, 2020
J. David, “In Defense of Joy” | July 29, 2020
Mike Faloon, “Pop Songs For an Unpredictable Time” | August 7, 2020
Seb Doubinsky, “Can One Write Dystopian Fiction in a Dystopian World?” | August 14, 2020
Tomoé Hill, “No Feet” | September 9, 2020
Kathe Koja, “All That Hunger” | September 21, 2020
Keith Kopka, “Punk Rock, Poetry & the Myth of Masculinity” | October 14, 2020
Andrew Farkas, “Bowl-a-Rama” | October 28, 2020
Alex DiFrancesco, “In Defense of Despair” | November 11, 2020
Marcie McCauley, “Playing Checkers in Brooklyn” | November 19, 2020
Eugen Bacon, “A Boundless Longing: Betwixt” | December 2, 2020
Ashley P. Taylor, “Transableism, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Me” | January 6, 2021
Libby Leonard, “Lessons From a New York City Nail Guru” | January 26, 2021
Jesse Ludington, “Billie Jean and Me” | February 17, 2021
Lee Felice Pinkas, “Sontag on Heartbreak” | February 24, 2021
Siân Evans, “The Ghost of Karen Dalton” | March 17, 2021
Michael Stutz, “Safe In Heaven Dead” | March 31, 2021
Treena Thibodeau, “Lost Cat” | April 28, 2021
Logan Davis, “Salchow and Seminoma” | June 16, 2021
J.S. Breukelaar, “Notes From The Bridge” | June 26, 2021
Alex DiFrancesco, “Fishing, Painting, Fireflies, and Metaphor” | June 30, 2021
Beth O’Halloran, “Ode to the Queen of Strays” | July 7, 2021
J. Ashley-Smith, “Ambiguity is the Essence of the Supernatural” | July 22, 2021
Genevieve Sachs, “Sittin’ in the Back of My Memory: My Father and His Musical Commandments” | September 1, 2021
Kristen Millares Young, “How to Break Even” | September 29, 2021
Flávia Monteiro, “But then I started to drink with strangers” | October 6, 2021
Ró Stack, “Thoughts In Waiting” | October 21, 2021
Mary Burger, “All the Daemons in Paradise” | November 3, 2021
Jeehan Quijano, “Home” | November 18, 2021
Jenna Kunze, “Clothing I Have Loved and Lost” | December 8, 2021
Claire Phillips, “The Stories That Save Us” | January 12, 2022
Michael Narkunski, “Happy Hour of the Wolf” | January 16, 2022
Logan Davis, “Hair After Chemo” | February 9, 2022
Eugen Bacon, “Telling It Straight? Bloody Oath.” | March 16, 2022
Paula Bomer, “The Punches” | March 31, 2022
Adrienne Celt, “Signs I Have Known” | April 20, 2022
Kathe Koja, “Make It Real” | May 11, 2022
Brandon Lewis, “The Enchanted Forest’s Edge” | May 26, 2022
Courtney Preiss, “Mary Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” | August 25, 2022
Amy Dupcak, “My Own Nirvana” | September 14, 2022
Martha Anne Toll, “Unlearning the Law: Novel Lessons” | September 21, 2022
Hunter Liguore, “Kinderkrankenhaus — On Forging a Neurodiverse Future Without Words” | October 12, 2022
Simon Graham, “Dirk” | October 26, 2022
Mark Neely, “No One Came to the Sea and Cake Concert” | October 31, 2022
Jennifer Spiegel, “Kids Without Horses (2022)” | November 9, 2022
Erik Hall, “Dispatches From the Making of Canto Ostinato“ | February 6, 2023
Amy Bobeda, “The Wild Bride of BKLN” | February 15, 2023
Hantian Zhang, “Middle” | March 1, 2023
John Yohe, “My Sidewalk Stage” | March 29, 2023
Ashley D. Escobar, “Farewell Brooklyn” | April 12, 2023
Jeremy C. Shipp, “Why I Like Amusement Parks” | April 26, 2023
J. Ashley-Smith, “Sounds of an old house: a haunting memoir” | June 5, 2023
McKenzie Stubbert, “When Art Explains Art” | August 16, 2023
Jacquelin Winter, “These Are the Things You’ll Pass Down” | August 30, 2023
Ariana Kelly, “Black Box” | September 13, 2023