by Alicia | Jul 18, 2016 | Daily Dot, Writing
If you’ve ever had the thought, “Ugh, I feel like a piece of meat!” while swiping on Tinder, rest assured that you are not alone in this meatspace. Others feel your pain—though, chances are, they’d like to feel your flesh, too. To cope with this dichotomy, there’s...
by Alicia | Jul 16, 2016 | Press
Highland Park-based art and culture writer Alicia Eler talks about: Her home in Highland Park, where’s she a tenant of the owners of the artist-run Adjunct Positions, and so never far from an opening and artists, and where she’s become a kind of permanent...
by Alicia | May 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Love isn’t always about romance. Sometimes it’s a purely platonic matter. Often it has to be kept secret for many years. This much became clear in the first season of Frankie and Grace, the Netflix comedy written by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris, and starring...
by Alicia | Feb 24, 2016 | Fiction, Writing
In a quest for sex, Alicia encounters two intense kitties I thought I was someone who loved cats. As a lifelong animal lover, I had a cat growing up — Penny was her name. Swiping around on Tinder just hours after landing at LaGuardia from LAX that summer, I noticed a...
by Alicia | Jan 23, 2016 | The New Inquiry, Writing
LIVING with a sense of overwhelming choice means exerting an insane amount of emotional energy in making the most banal decisions. What should you watch on Hulu tonight? Make a Facebook status asking for recommendations. Tweet the question to your followers. After...
