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MAYDAY Staff Poll: Best “Break Up With the Job” Films

March 23, 2023

Woman with orange long sleeve top. Both arms up making rock and roll signs with her hands. Still from the movie STICK IT.

The MAYDAY staff propose their favorite break-up-with-the-job films and TV shows. Celebrate spring by quitting! Or, rather, vicariously quitting through “Office Space.”

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: March 23, 2023

Stigmata
by Gabriella Graceffo

March 16, 2023 Contributed By: Gabriella Graceffo

Headshot of the author wearing a dark sweater with a blurred background of a tree.

Halfway up a mountain, I’m desperate to see a ghost. Not the way I used to be, letting faucets drip at night, leaving light switches half-flipped; a dozen small gestures begging supernatural interference. Now I look for ghosts to understand why my body feels more haunted than any place.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Uncategorized Posted On: March 16, 2023

Resonance
by Ginny Bitting

March 9, 2023 Contributed By: Ginny Bitting

Headshot of the author. She is wearing a dark purple sweater and there is a lighter purple background.

Pythagoras said you can hear all notes in the sound of one plucked string. A single tone—the fundamental—triggers both overtones and sympathetic vibrations.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: March 9, 2023

Year-End Wrap-Up: The MAYDAY Editors’ Books of the Year, 2022

February 2, 2023

Open books layered over each other cover the entire page.

This year, we’d like to specially feature our amazing friends at Brilliant Books, who style themselves “your local, long distance bookstore.” Though they feature a brick-and-mortar store in Traverse City, Michigan, Brilliant Books distinguish themselves as being one of the largest independent online book retailers in the country, and a crucial example of success in […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Culture, Nonfiction Posted On: February 2, 2023

Geranium
by Brittany Price

October 27, 2022 Contributed By: Brittany Price

My mole has gone to Arkansas for analysis. I think: it’s been to Arkansas with me before. I think: it’s the first time my mole’s gone anywhere alone.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: October 27, 2022

Q&A with Novelist, Memoirist, and Nonfiction Contest Judge
Darin Strauss by Elliott Bueler

September 26, 2022 Contributed By: Darin Strauss, Elliott Bueler

Darin Strauss headshot

“Memoir is not quite a record of a life; it’s a record of your memory about some part or parts of your life.”

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Interviews, Nonfiction Posted On: September 26, 2022

Thirty Things Overheard While Attending My Friend’s Wedding
by William Musgrove

August 1, 2022 Contributed By: William Musgrove

Photos by Lanty via Unsplash

1. One half of a couple staring at a woman in a pink dress resting her head on a picnic table: Shh, she’s the one from the hotel.
2. The other half pointing at the man sitting next to the woman in the pink dress: Maybe he kidnapped her, and she has Stockholm syndrome.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: August 1, 2022

Mick Jagger Mails a Letter
by Robert Fromberg

June 20, 2022 Contributed By: Robert Fromberg

Mick Jagger graffiti

Once I saw Mick Jagger mail a letter.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: June 20, 2022

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

April 18, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, William Luvaas

Saturday Level and Full, 2021, oil on canvas, 48x60 by Elizabeth Johnson

I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: April 18, 2022

Smoking with Art
by Patricia Feinman

March 28, 2022 Contributed By: Patricia Feinman

Patricia Feinman sculpture

Our hair and every piece of clothing we owned were impregnated with the stench of smoke—we stank of smoke—but we didn’t care, because we loved smoking.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: March 28, 2022

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