by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing
From The New Inquiry, August 30, 2016: What’s crawling underneath the fantasy of an insect-free home? WE who live in homes still strive for them to be bug-free, or at least occupied by as few bugs as possible. The proliferation of exterminators and other “pest...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing
From The New Inquiry, March 2, 2016: Why isn’t the popular grocery store Trader Joe’s on social media? TODAY’S consumerism is riddled with elaborate and often meaningless choices: Which brand of pasta should you buy? Would that be best with Ragu, Amy’s Organic, or...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Collaborative Essays
From The New Inquiry, January 14, 2016: Tinder’s binary mechanisms can be a template for a whole way of life in which everything is an option and processing beats choosing LIVING with a sense of overwhelming choice means exerting an insane amount of emotional energy...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Collaborative Essays
From The New Inquiry, August 26, 2015: Tinder involves managing the vulnerability of “putting oneself out there” by playing it like a video game. “We saw some beautiful things here. Things we’ll never forget … Everyone was just trying to find themselves. God it was so...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Memoir
From New York Magazine, April 28, 2016: To the extent that there’s a defining image of the current era in sex trends, it’s the dick pic. It’s increasingly normal to find that people who date — or maybe even just know — men have a few megabytes worth of dicks on their...
