Laurie Granieri

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

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They feel pretty.

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On naming names in our writing—telling hard truths about people we love: “Writing has become my way of re-membering, putting the pieces back together. Writing is my rejoinder to my brother’s claim of, ‘I don’t remember.’” lauriegranieri.substack.com/p/naming-names

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A Book Is Not a Machine And neither are you.

On remembering that we are not robots, and that making art is supposed to be an unpredictable, up-and-down, wax-and-wane project: open.substack.com/pub/lauriegr...

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Cover of under the gum tree literary magazine, painted, jagged lines, what seem to be otherworldly creatures

My grinning brother, all crooked teeth and crooked eyeglasses, fanning out his gossip like a card trick.

“Mark wants to pop your cherry.”

My latest essay is “Deadbolt,” in Under the Gum Tree. I am so proud to be among these writers and artists. underthegumtree.com/spring-2025/

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Mother books. Thanks for getting ne thinking about these, @maunicadevi.bsky.social

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