Marissa Flaxbart's Metaforia
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Glancing at the forecast in Los Angeles this past week has been unusually exciting. After months of heat, a rare stretch of highs under 80 and lows in …
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Here’s a peek behind the curtain at Metaforia: my first instinct, almost every time I sit down to write, is to explain my process. Hey, kinda like I’m …
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A few years back, I got a root canal on a lower left molar. It was my first but, given my genetic dental heritage, possibly not my last. Everyone knows…
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This past Thursday would have been my mother’s 72nd birthday. I’m no numerologist, but “72” doesn’t appear in any popular theory of milestone birthdays…
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There is a particular subset of movie nerds that harbors a masochistic streak. I have long counted myself a member of this strange, perverted tribe. I …
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In my mid-20s, a series of coincidences and minor miracles brought me to an audition for the choir at Chicago’s St James Cathedral. I narrowly skated b…
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I got my first pair of glasses in second grade. We’d recently moved from Chicago to the distant Indiana suburbs, and Mrs. Carlson noticed the way I was…
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It’s Labor Day in the USA. Tempting though it is to make today’s newsletter a diatribe…er, meditation on the modern American relationship to labor in g…
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I was feeling pretty uneasy last Tuesday afternoon when I pulled into the public library in Los Feliz. It wasn’t the library that was making me uneasy …
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Around this time last year, when everyone on earth was struggling for something to focus on, I was obsessing over household appliances and the sounds t…
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I just got back from a trip to New Mexico. I have been going to New Mexico a lot lately. Also, I was born there. As I wrote last week, I was there, alo…
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On Sweet Valley Diaries (my podcast about Francine Pascal’s delightfully dramatic, often ludicrous book series, Sweet Valley High), we’re moving on thi…
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