Asya Partan
@apartan
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Writer. Chronic re-arranger of spaces. Essays in @the_rumpus @cogwbur @BostonGlobe @pangyrus. Top 5: multiculturalism/identity/media/art/place.
Boston, MA, USA
Joined April 2007
Powerful essay about identity, prejudice, and punctuation that's 100% worth (y)our time. Guernica: The Hyphen’s Dream https://t.co/ketGIzEdtm via @GuernicaMag
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Meditations on RedNote and the Chinese-American Identity
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Ah, the weird weighted gym ropes. Called "battle ropes," it turns out. Read about them and other mind-boggling gym terms in my latest piece for @GlobeOpinion to add a bit of levity to your day.
“I imagine it happened like this. One day, on a Zoom call, corporate voted to reinvent the gym to lure new bodies to its dumbbells and those weird weighted ropes,” writes @apartan. “A return to office – gym edition.” #GlobeIdeas
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Kelly Horan, my wildly multi-talented editor at @GlobeOpinion, has written a stunning essay about her mother-in-law. Enjoy! Swan song: My mother-in-law, her myth, and me https://t.co/xtC31ZlfZi via @BostonGlobe
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She was blessed with good fortune, great beauty, uncommon talent, glittering friends, and a doting family. Why wasn’t any of it enough?
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I loved speaking to @NicoleGLipson about how her essays - and her beautiful memoir-in-essays, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters - came into being, word by word. Thank you @brevitymag for giving our Q&A a wonderful home!
"I wanted to write a book that spoke to the many coexisting versions of ourselves, using my life as a case study to illustrate that women are complex, multidimensional, full human beings." ~ @NicoleGLipson interviewed by @apartan
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Thank you, @cogwbur and @cloeax, for making a home for this piece. May life underground soon become a thing of the past.
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Americans are grappling with the kind of humiliation-by-association that Putin has inspired in countless Russians -- including me -- and it’s heartbreaking to see, writes Asya Partan.
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The third anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. Three years of absolute heroism by our people. Eternal memory to all who stood up in defense of our state and our people, giving their lives so that Ukraine may live. Eternal gratitude to the fallen
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My fabulously talented professor Megan Marshall (a Pulitzer winner for her biography work) is coming out with a new book of essays. You can read about them here, and check out one of her many upcoming events in the Boston area.
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The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.
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An update on the curse of Lenin's embalmed body: Putin's been advised "to remove Vladimir Lenin's body from a mausoleum in Moscow in order to seal his legacy as Moscow's leader." #https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/27/opinion/russia-putin-lenin-embalmed-soviet-history/
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An important piece by @mashagessen as we enter Trump's second term and approach the 3rd warversary in Ukraine. I Spent Trump’s Inauguration in Ukraine. This Is What I Saw.
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“And Panama!” a Ukrainian military analyst said. “What did calm, peaceful Panama do?”
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Endless thanks to @The_Rumpus for publishing this. I hope everyone get to read this extraordinary, laugh-out-loud funny, devastating memoir. Part @navalny’s life story, part Russia’s, it’s also a playbook on resistance that we very much need today.
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Navalny’s tragicomic memoir, which one might also categorize as his last call to action, accomplishes the feat of keeping the reader so ensconced that they forget the person capturing every ounce of...
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My gifted friend BC Reynolds' writes: "I had my second IUD put in because my country elected a madman. It was the longest-lasting option I could find... and I expected this man I would never meet would try to strip away my rights as quickly as he could."
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They are for young people who don’t need to make up their minds about having children yet. They offer safety from surprises and forgetfulness, “mistake-proof.”
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My friend and fellow @Emerson_WLP-er Jen Zeuli has just published a stunning piece of flash and I feel so lucky to write alongside people who can craft such beauty with a pen. #flash #writing
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Creative non-fiction by Jennifer Zeuli
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Two phenomenally talented writers who inspire me daily sat down to have a conversation about a magical new essay collection. Check out @NicoleGLipson’s interview with Jerald Walker about his new book, “Magically Black” & make sure you get a copy!
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Nicole Graev Lipson interviews Jerald Walker about his new essay collection, “Magically Black.”
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Don't wait – check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote. And then share this with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day. https://t.co/jKW0RyeBXC
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A misunderstood genius takes the stand. Or has AI come so far as to make something like this? In any case: superb material for SNL. Not for the White House.
Trump: It must be because of my relationship with M.I.T., very smart, I say, what would happen if the boat sank, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater…. Do I get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark?
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A great conversation about climate, human behavior, and a bit of hope. via @NYTimes
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on how to overcome the “soft” climate denial that keeps us buying junk.
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Funniest thing I've seen all week: Backman, of "A Man Called Ove," does 4 min of standup. "Being a writer is the best way I know how to get paid for being insane." And the real difference between #Sweden and #Switzerland #fredrikbackman #thewritinglife
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I thought getting a puppy would distract me from the distinct panicky excitement of checking the inbox to hear about submissions. Nope! Maybe I should have gotten a tiger. How do seasoned writers manage this constant, Tinder-like delirium? #thewritinglife
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Very fun first day at #muse24 @GrubWriters 📚✍️! Great to see old writer friends and make new ones. @BMatteau @apartan
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When you're in a seminar with someone for a semester and on the second-to-last day of class, he casually mentions getting published in @SmokeLong and you get to read flash brilliance. Goodness, @ScottPomfret
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Phone. Wallet. Keys. A modicum of dignity. An ocean of guilt. For me, the humiliation of Bobby Chandler beating me up in fourth grade. For her, her grandmother’s admonition that life was short, eat...
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