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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

‘The Audit’ and ‘Red Bank’ are excerpts from Schweig’s forthcoming book, Take Nothing With You (University of Iowa Press, 2016)   THE AUDIT   Groupwise, busy search Start off your week with some cake   Spatula, buy eggs Butter your kayak with cake Harvard, Washburn My girlfriend’s   son’s graduation party yesterday Blackberry outage Some cake (Investigate)   Harvard, spatula, my girlfriend’s son’s party yesterday Busy search, blackberries   The audit questions, investigates the state of yesterday Question the audit Forkful   of angel A wise group of suits, after delays, never came Harvard, margarine Calling and calling,   today, all the neighbors, utter undress, complete disarray, I propped the door open, which is to say   Washburn, kayak I propped my window with an eyeglass case Butter your kayak, cake       RED BANK   Deaths came out of the blue and the weather complied After, the sound of running water and the girls whose names     are not be mentioned He said my disposition was a fragment He drove one-handed Two rules: No complete lines A little blood in the water       EMPTINESS (CODA)   My brother says he can’t afford the future I’m living above a bakery in the city, and a bar next door There is no time Sometimes I hear music     My lover works a shit job, leaving early, coming back late My brother lives out on the shit great plains and says he can’t afford the future     Here, a storefront called The Essence Of Life is open all night What they sell, I don’t know, always the same guy chain-smoking out front, yelling into his phone     (Sometimes, this is the music) I spend time reading conflicting theories, having doubts I don’t think much about the future There is no time for The Essence Of Life     When my lover comes home hungry, we prepare dinner We take walks out by The Essence of Life, say “hi” to the smoking guy (We know nothing of each other)     My brother knows nothing of the future My mother is making plans for her life At night, over the phone, she says, Tomorrow, I’ll start over Downstairs,     music There is no time We know nothing of The Essence Of Life open all night, lit-up and always empty My brother says he can’t afford the future  

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Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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fiction

August 2013

Foxy

Siân Melangell Dafydd

fiction

August 2013

If you don’t want to lose your eyes, grab them by the veins sticking out of their behinds and...

fiction

June 2013

The Cherry Tree

Sheila Heti

fiction

June 2013

That winter, all the plums froze. All the peaches froze and all the cherries froze, and everything froze so...

poetry

October 2012

Bacon’s Friends

Stephen Devereux

poetry

October 2012

Always got caught out by their shadows: Stuck to their soles like monkeys on trapezes, Cellophane fortune tellers curling...

 

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