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Category Archives: Life

How Not To Talk: A Reduction

August 14, 2014by Brittany Allen Leave a comment

Hello, old friends! I have something to say: The other night at a bar in Alphabet City, I spoke with a dear one about the qualities of a ‘true friend.’ […]

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Culture, Opinion, Personal

Metro Ethics 101

November 12, 2013by Brittany Allen Leave a comment

This morning on a stalled 7 train, tacked sideways to the lip of the Hunter’s Point station, I attempted to tune in to long-latent psychic powers. I tried magic. We […]

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Criticism, Personal, Society

Project Funtime Magic Go!

September 14, 2013by Brittany Allen Leave a comment

For the past three years on my computer there has been a “novel.” I use the air quotes here because the “novel” is as preposterous, as young-hearted, as many other […]

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Arts, Fiction, Literature, Opinion, Science

Eating Crow

August 28, 2013by Brittany Allen Leave a comment

I used to reserve a special kind of secret scorn for those kids who took weeks out of high school for vague illnesses that never seemed to resolve. I just […]

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Nonfiction, Opinion, Personal, Prose

OH JUST AT LEAST PLEASE DON’T SHUT UP

July 18, 2013by Brittany Allen 1 Comment

It’s almost been a week. It’s cruel to think that “everything has already been said,” yet it’s tedious to hopscotch from one blustering blog to another. It is a paradox: […]

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Nonfiction, Opinion, Personal

All that Glitters

May 19, 2013by Brittany Allen 1 Comment

*Spoiler alert, Iron Man 3D. But really, you haven’t seen it already? It’s a cheap thrill to rail on the easy target, so I will now belatedly upbraid the latest […]

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Arts, Criticism, Movies, Opinion, Society, Television

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Whippersnapper

May 9, 2013by Brittany Allen Leave a comment

Leah Cox is watchable: in the Clark Theatre of Lincoln Center stages, way farther uptown than I usually go, she shepherds wunderkind to and fro with a grace that shrieks […]

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Arts, Life, Nonfiction, Personal

Let’s Say: A Place

April 16, 2013by Kirin McCrory Leave a comment

Let’s say there’s a place I’ve lived. Let’s say I lived there in my formative years. Let’s say I spent two years on two blocks on this place–this city–and two […]

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Arts, Culture, Life, Nonfiction, Personal, Places, Prose

The Best Coast

April 11, 2013by Brittany Allen Leave a comment

I think now I can call this a tradition, or at least a habit – every spring since I moved to New York I’ve reread Joan Didion’s clincher essay “Goodbye […]

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Life, Literature, Places, Reviews

Too Gung-Ho for Her Own Damn Good

January 25, 2013by Brittany Allen 1 Comment

At St. Dymphna’s on Sunday night the aspiring Wayne Coyne in the corner was hunched over a book that I figured from the fatness was House of Leaves. We became […]

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