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Check out the nonfiction writings in the Fools Magazine written on various topics. Fools Magazine is a semiannual print magazine and digital publication. Since our founding, our mission has remained the same: to curate an honest narrative of our little sector of the universe.
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2M ago
A few years before her husband died, the painter Berthe Morisot and her family spent the summer and autumn at a falling down villa in Nice. It was surrounded by orchards of orange trees. All day every day they spent outside, eating outside, and working outside, and doing nothing, the three of them, Berthe, Eugene ..read more
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2M ago
“You must come in—and I’ll cut your hair.” This was one of the first things John said to my then-boyfriend, Michael, and later to me, when he met us. It was an offering of benevolence, a proclamation of intent, a declaration of future friendship that would extend three decades. It was 1993. I was twenty-six ..read more
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2M ago
SIDE A Creep, Radiohead (1993) Losing My Religion, R.E.M. (1991) Wind of Change, Scorpions (1990) Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Guns N’ Roses (1990) 7 Seconds, Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry (1994) SIDE B What’s Up, 4 Non Blondes (1993) The Man Who Sold the World, Nirvana (1993) For Whom the Bell Tolls, Saxon (1988) Bitter ..read more
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5M ago
Oftentimes, my room is called the “black hole” in my household because of all the many things that are suddenly and unexpectedly lost to it. But loss does not remain only within those four confiningly white walls; it follows me. An absentminded klutz no more deft than a clod of dirt, I lose things that ..read more
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11M ago
The following essay is excerpted from Thalia Williamson’s memoir The Silent Part. She’s between the ages of two and five. That’s the best she can offer. She’s on a beach in Bali, and she’s walking beside her mother. There is photographic evidence of her walking on a beach in Bali, holding her mother’s hand, but ..read more
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11M ago
Before we knew about the Freedom Industries chemical spill, I met my mom for lunch at a pizza parlor in my hometown. We were only a few miles away from the contamination site. It was about noon, just after the holidays, and the restaurant was packed with families. My baby had not yet been born ..read more
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1y ago
In the fields of Schildow, fifty kilometers north of Berlin, Sepp and I study the sky, searching for words. On this cloudy October afternoon, almost two kilometers above us, the heavens are filled with soaring Vs—thousands upon thousands of cranes heading south. Majestic birds, with tri-colored crowns, four feet in height, a wingspan of eight ..read more
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1y ago
Lee, Kenny, Wayne, Joel, me and my brother Alan are expected to go to college, not walk into sorrow’s kitchen and lick out all the pots. Yet, I’m the only one who hasn’t spent time on a cell block, making collect calls asking for money to be put on his books. I’m not the smartest ..read more
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1y ago
I’m in bed with a near-stranger when my phone rings. The first time I ignore it, but when the call is instantly followed by another, I worry it might be important. The area code is my own, but the rest of the numbers mean nothing. Debt collectors contact me from generated 417 numbers constantly, but ..read more
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1y ago
First there is Istanbul, the city that contains two continents, the oft-said meeting ground of East and West. Then there is the Bosporus with its divided current: the top, fresh water flowing south; the bottom, salt water flowing north. And finally there is me. Turkish father, American mother. Born in Istanbul, raised in Pennsylvania. From ..read more