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Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·June 1, 2024·7 min read
Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.
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Conclusion to this Special Issue: A Peek into My Catalog

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 18, 2024·6 min read
Story-worlds were magical—they transported me to different places where I’d meet new people, and learn about their lives in visceral ways.
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My Career Part Two: A Philosophy of Love

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 18, 2024·30 min read
In Part One, I situated my work within the context of the work of writers. Now, I’m situating my work within the context of women writers.
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Pitch (Not) Perfect: My Quixotic Journey in the World of Music

Wendy K. Mages·
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·May 18, 2024·11 min read
This autoethnographic narrative describes the growth and development I experienced once I found mentors who, despite my lack of “natural musical abilities” or “talent,” believed I could learn.
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My Career Part One: Philosophy of The Arts

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 17, 2024·26 min read
There’s also a larger goal underscoring my work. I aim to create a philosophy of the arts and a philosophy of love.
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Start Again and Sparkle Always with Celestial Bodies

Xan Nowakowski·
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·May 17, 2024·25 min read
I’d take the past and make it straight, Even though it’s complicated, We’ve got time to start again, I don’t know if you can hear me…
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The Impact of Patricia Leavy’s Social (Sociological) Fiction

J.E. Sumerau·
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·May 17, 2024·16 min read
Gratitude is a recurring theme I hear from readers of Patricia Leavy’s social fiction. This is an essay about Patricia Leavy novels.
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Patricia Leavy Is the Social Fiction Doyenne

Alexandra Lasczik·
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·May 17, 2024·20 min read
Patricia Leavy is a genuine trailblazer, the real deal, an inspiration.
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The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir

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·May 16, 2024·14 min read
The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir Author’s Memo My memoir is about my growing up as the daughter of a Freudian...
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Transman in a Ballet Studio: The Weirdest Job Ever Seen

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·May 15, 2024·13 min read
This is a humorous narrative nonfiction account of the strangest job I ever had working for a kooky fitness guru in Manhattan for six years.
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On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box

John Armstrong·
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·May 10, 2024·17 min read
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others in the American South, I began my teens...
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Spark: A Novel and Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Research

Ash Watson·
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·May 6, 2024·13 min read
Leavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.
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