Selected Stories: May 4, 2016

According to fiction writer Neil Gaiman, “Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.” These stories entangle us within them:
An interview by Joe Fassler with Kathryn Harrison titled “To Write, Stop Thinking” published at The Atlantic with so much great insight, this blurb does no justice:
An essay at Adventure Journal by Adam Geremia about chasing the “runner’s high” and recreational running’s descent from “transcendence” to “achievement and competition” in today’s society.
Published at Guernica, “Straight to the jawline bloody Igor,” a rhythmic, block-style poem by Shelly Taylor: “…long-haired now in some big city, everything bluer, faces, yours, square through the jaw, bouncing with stride busy streets okay.”
A piece by Kelly McEvers, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” at Lenny Letter on the reality of journalism and her experience in the Middle East:
An article at Vox by Victoria M. Massie about Beyoncé’s mind-blowing new album/film “Lemonade” discussing the film as a tribute to black women: “6 black women Beyoncé channels in Lemonade—from Warsan Shire to Zora Neale Hurston.”
An essay by Bill Brewster about the invention and evolution of the remix in New York City at Mix Mag.
And last but not least, a piece at NY Mag by Kim Brooks exploring domestic life and parenthood—and its (possibly detrimental) effect on creativity: