Tag: Miranda Schmidt
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ROOTED, the best new arboreal nonfiction edited by Josh MacIvor-Andersen, reviewed by Miranda Schmidt
Recently, Portland, my home, was covered in a layer of ash and smoke from nearby wildfires in the forested Columbia Gorge. Wildfires are common in the west but this year’s intensely hot and dry summer has created conditions that mean, as we inched towards fall, it felt as if the whole of the west coast…
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Charting the Depths of Absurdity: On Reading Annie Hartnett’s RABBIT CAKE
The very nature of death is absurd. The notion that a person can cease to exist, here in one moment and gone in the next, creates a strong sense of dissonance that, especially in those first minutes of grieving, makes the world feel surreal. Directly after my mom died, I couldn’t find my way out…