Buying Homemade Aprons and a Psychic
Claire Carusillo on the psychics of Etsy:Etsy has 8,694 results (and counting!) for “tarot reading,” 7,650 for “psychic reading,” and 945 for “astrology reading.” The Etsy psychic community conducts...
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Podcatcher #1: Oh No, Ross and Carrie!
I was raised in a cult. At least, that’s what I tell people—it’s a little simpler and more exciting than explaining that I was raised as part of a strange, evangelical Christian group known as the...
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R.I.P.: Who Died in This House?
Roy Condrey is the founder of DiedInHouse.com, a site that allows you to plug in your address and, for a fee, get a report that reveals how many deaths occurred at your home. A DiedInHouse.com report...
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The Genius and the Nobody: Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions
There are girl girls and boy girls and boy boys and girl boys, I once heard Eileen Myles tell Lynne Tillman. You, she said, are a masculine writer. (I’m paraphrasing.) The two of them were discussing...
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Living with Our Ghosts: A Conversation with Maisy Card
I’m not sure if I believe in the paranormal—a chill, a shadow, any audiovisual departure from the normal—because I’m too busy being scared of other things: the imminent election, a voicemail. Plus, I...
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Poetry as Incantation: Talking with Andrea Actis
On a December evening in 2007, Andrea Actis found her father dead in her East Vancouver apartment. Her debut book, Grey All Over, which she sometimes describes as a “collaboration with my father’s...
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