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Invitation to a Beheading

and the hard problem of consciousness I remember realizing the hard problem of consciousness at around 6 years old. I was playing with Barbies beside the bookshelf my grandfather built me and It just struck me, all at once, that everybody had their own mind and that that made a lot of minds in the whole entire world. It was one of those ideas that scared me so much as a child that I sort of walked back from it, in my own mind. I think perhaps, this mutual obsession is one of

hailo

May 9

God Save the Scene!

hello beautiful angels, princesses, and other people of the Hot Literati Universe. I’m so happy you’re here. Tomorrow, I'll post the winning essay of our April Competition, but for today, I’m going to tell you about some of my favorite open mics in New York and some things that I did recently! God Save the Scene Reading Yesterday, I joined my friend Chris at a reading series by GOD SAVE THE SCENE at a gallery off of Canal Street. There were a lot of great satirical pieces, a

Art & Culture

hailo

May 1

What Is Literature?

The Lovers, William Firth, 1855 I Literature attends to the structures of lived experience. As prose and poetry, it informs our understanding of the experiences we have had: of love, of friendship, and of loss. Our favorite books give us back the thoughts we formed only halfway, which we recognize fully formed on the page even though we have never seen them fully formed. I love to hear my thoughts given back to me with edits and enhancements. That is why I read. What belongs

Pondering

Luis Torres

Mar 18

My First Big Literary Rejection

And some thoughts on the World Wide Web Today I received my first real literary rejection, which was an email that said "I'll pass on this." I've had a very unconventional, internet forward career as a writer so far, but I'm currently shopping around a memoir titled The American Princess Diet , about some very particular instances in my life through the lens of food, media, sex, and God. I never expected to make any money from writing, which is one of the ways I stumbled into

Pondering

hailo

Feb 24