"If I had a theory of noise it would contemplate substrates akin to the murmuring whale, and those substrates only." (Peter Milne Greiner on Sforzando)

Is the sforzando the registration or the dread?

"If the body remembers everything, she happened." From the Editor, Giveaway, & the Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand

What a space we made for ourselves last night—& when I say space I hope you hear salvation. You’re the best love we know, dear songbirds.

"The book stretches into the realms of dream & surreality, hinging on histories I don’t have full access to." (An Interview With Marie Conlan)

I think we as humans experience a collective aching to know ourselves, and psychics & therapists each illuminate different access points.

Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand on IG Live: See You There?

Please join us at Half Mystic’s latest gathering this coming Saturday, April 18, 2020, at 9 P.M. EST.

Dear Renata (Marie Conlan on Say Mother Say Hand)

& now, spinning in the center of pandemic, what is celebration in an era of loss? Of isolation? She said resilience. I heard re-silence.

Personal Essay, Music, LiteratureGuestApril 8, 2020Marie Conlan

Wuthering Heights in Words and Song: Female Hysteria, Melodrama, and Racial Complexity

The women of Wuthering Heights take up substantial space in their caustic, expansive splendor.

Everything Is Known and Loved Because It Is Known: Familial Song in Little Women

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?

Literature, Music, FilmHana WidermanMarch 16, 2020Greta Gerwig

Introducing Say Mother Say Hand

It is a personification of the word despite: survival despite, forgiveness despite, love despite. This book speaks & we can’t help but pay attention.

Literature, Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersFebruary 18, 2020Marie Conlan, David Welch, Sara Veglahn, Karolina Zapal

From the Editor, Book Launch, & Giveaway: Sammie Downing's The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

Step into this House with us. Warm your hands on the fire. We’ve been waiting for you for so long.

From the Editor, Announcements, Literature, Music, GatheringsTopaz WintersDecember 18, 2019Sammie Downing

"Memory is fantasy; what we carry with us has little to do with fact, everything to do with feeling." (Sammie Downing on The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs)

There is magic in the dissonance.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestDecember 14, 2019Sammie Downing