Christen Clifford is a writer with a New School MFA, 2006 NonFiction Competition prize, 2007 fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and work published in Salon, Nerve, and New York Press.
She is also an actor who has performed off Broadway, on As The World Turns and Guiding Light, and [...]

by Elizabeth Koch

Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

by Elizabeth Koch

Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

Marshall Poe is a dream writer for those of us obsessed with sharing stories online. His recent Atlantic Monthly piece, “The Hive,” addresses Wikipedia as history’s biggest collaborative knowledge experiment. He’s currently writing a book about mass collaboration on the Internet and maintains the fantastic memoryarchive.org.
Below, Poe explores the conflation of public and private worlds—off [...]

It’s early February in the early oughts, and our heroine is dating two men: Gary, who is polyamorous, and Frank, who is not. Since she is not being monogamous, you might think that she, too, is polyamorous. But she isn’t committed to the concept of non-commitment, any more than she’s committed to commitment. Therein lies [...]

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, and two entries [...]

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, and the beginning [...]

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and a little more Tokyo.
We wake up early [...]

Jennifer Shreve is a fiction and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in Seed, Adbusters, Slate, Wired, and elsewhere. She has an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Here she writes about her family history, a seeing her aging father after many years, and the guns that move in and out of [...]