Places
Places
| Virtual Worlds
I Hate Shopping (and Shops Are the Problem)
“I can convince myself that the website’s tasteful design is at odds with child labor and unlivable wages.”
Places
| At Work
My Low-Wage Job at the Circus
Not one of those big, tacky circuses—something more European and intimate.
Places
| Migrations
All the Things I Thought About When We Were Naming My Nephew (aka A गुलाब by Any Other Name; aka Song for Kian)
“How will non-Indians pronounce it?”
Places
| At Work
When Your Family Business Isn’t a Family
“It was disingenuous to pretend we were all in this out of love.”
Places
| At Work
The Writer Is In
“Storytellers came to me looking for connection—which was, of course, the very thing I’d been craving myself.”
Places
| Arrivals and Departures
The Accidental City
“I navigate New York by means of accumulated memory.”
Places
| Virtual Worlds
Scrabble With My Mom
“No matter what else happens, I play my turn, and she plays hers.”
Places
| At Work
Vegetables for a Dead President
“We were often unaware of the ghosts working the land beside us.”
Places
| Earth
Under Threat of the Really Big One
“You pick your tragedy and aim for that. I chose earthquake.”