Emmalea Russo
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A Bonkers Artist Heart February 27, 2025
Once a year at my Catholic elementary school, all the second, third, and fourth graders would head down to the school chapel, where we’d sit in the pews in alphabetical order and wait for our turn to confess our sins. It was easy to tell when you wer...
A Little Night Music: On VIVIENNE and Surrealism February 17, 2025
The residue of the day is a dream. The residue of World War I was Surrealism. We know a surreal moment when we see it: familiar-foreign, supremely freaky, frighteningly true but not actually real....
A Conversation with Emmalea Russo December 03, 2024
Poet and novelist Emmalea Russo exists on my Instagram as a wild-haired, tattooed practitioner of the occult who sometimes wears a party dress, sometimes carries a pitchfork, and lives in the green world outside our urban spaces. In the past year, sh...
The Sacred and the Profane September 19, 2024
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1937 short story “Thank You For the Light” follows a Chicago-based corset-saleswoman as she scours the streets for matches to light her cigarette. A widow with “no close relatives to write to in the evenings,” smoking “meant a l...
Vivienne September 12, 2024
Vesta Furio is grinding her teeth as she often does in the deep sleep hour before waking. Franz, whom her father named after the artist Franz Kline, sleeps beside her, and the crepuscular sounds emanating from her mouth stir him awake. He leaves the ...
