Janet Frishberg
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selected non-fiction & essays

To Pledge Again: Notes on Silence and Responding - Entropy

An animal unencumbered by memory - Pidgeonholes

The No-Makeup Experiment - Human Parts, Medium 


The Finger Banger and The Heart Fucker - Medium's Power Trip Issue

Incomplete Instructions for Girl Writers in Pain - The Coil / Alternating Current Press

Get Down to Work or God Help You: Reading Etty Hillesum - 
Catapult

It's Okay to Give Up on Mediocre Books Because We're All Going to Die - Electric Literature

Notes on Psalms 1-5 - No Tokens (print only)

How I Read 77 Books Last Year - Medium


On Blue: Regarding a Joni Mitchell Cover Concert - Synaesthesia Magazine

11 Things I Know About Grief - Medium
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Endo - The Manifest-Station; originally published in the anthology: Get Out Of My Crotch! Twenty-One Writers Respond to America's War on Women's Rights and Reproductive Health

On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood - The Rumpus
Recognized in:
  • Vela Magazine's Women We Read This Week
  • The Atlantic's round up of pop culture writing for the week
  • The Happy Wanderer Podcast, Ep 15

Sorry - Human Parts on Medium; later republished on Huffington Post

That Was 22 - The Manifest Station

We Who Love the Non-Survivors Are Left With Different Questions - Monkeybicycle

Benefits of Anticipatory Grief - r.kv.r.y quarterly and also published at VerityLA

Suicide net needed on Golden Gate Bridge - Op-Ed; San Francisco Chronicle

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selected fiction & poetry​

Allowable, Sure, But Potentially Doomed - Pithead Chapel (nominated for a Pushcart)

Document14 - [PANK]

I Don't Know Where Exactly His Grave Is - Cheap Pop (nominated for Best Short Fictions)

All The Secrets Of The Universe - Joyland (top read story on Joyland West, 2018)
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After You Texted - Hobart 

To Know, At Least - Storychord
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Only Time - Day One; also published as a Kindle Single 
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What There Is To Be Done - WhiskeyPaper

​Wants: Parts 1 - 3 - Gigantic Sequins (print only)

​What You Can Do - Luna Luna Magazine

How Not to Drown - Lunch Ticket

The Part of the Story I Won't Be Telling You - Smokelong Quarterly

This Dog, This Shower, This Bench, This Morning - Pithead Chapel

All Sorts of Stories - sparkle + blink, as part of Quiet Lightning's Litquake Show


Fine, Cupid - Black Heart Magazine

Gaping/Seam - Revolution House Quarterly; first published by Index/Fist in Habits of the Mouth

Apparent Wind - Cease, Cows



interviews & etc

On not waiting around for inspiration: Conversation with LP Giobbi - The Creative Independent

On the challenge of completing a project: Conversation with Brad Listi
- The Creative Independent

On creating work while living with chronic pain: Conversation with Michelle Rial - The Creative Independent


Nothing Gets Solved: Talking with Kevin Nguyen - The Rumpus

This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison - 
The Rumpus

Anger As Fuel: A Conversation with Dani Burlison - The Rumpus

Our Beautiful Fragility: A Conversation with Lisa Locascio - The Rumpus


Which Hamilton Song Goes Best With Each Jewish Holiday: A Guide - Moment Magazine