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This blank book had nothing to do with language: It went beyond that. It was the emptiness of this book that would make space for the author to say exactly what she wanted to say, everything she could ever want to say, forever. 

Life is really funny: I watched “Girl, Interrupted” for the first time just a few weeks before I landed myself in a psychiatric ward a month and a half ago.

I love music enough to create it, to write about it, to critique it, to consume it at all hours. It’s exciting to see K-pop rapidly grow in popularity, inspiring non-Korean fans to become acquainted with a culture they may not have known much about otherwise.

When San Francisco-based Lil Kayla was inexplicably replaced — only to arrive an hour or so later for a brief set — by a half-baked performance from Cleveland-based rapper Chxpo, people quickly took notice, and they were not happy.

I felt guilty for seeing art as a form of escape into some higher, more elite plane of existence instead of just an extension of the life I was already living.

The role that lightning-struck Brown was that of Maria in a production of “West Side Story” her senior year of high school.

Packed with punchy synths, a host of grade-A features and lyrics about growth and change ... Flower Boy is all about Tyler laying claim to his own softness.

This mindset creates dangerous misunderstandings about the value of literature and of the realities of mental illness.