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Feb 13, 2025 | 
theoffingmag.com | Hannah Grieco |Jennifer Givhan |Kimberly Rooney |Mark Keats
I get an email from Ancestry.com. I leave it unread in my inbox, at first. I think about deleting it. I think, for the hundredth time, about unsubscribing and blocking. I think about canceling the account, which was a gift from my adoptive mother almost ten years ago. Every six months or so, I stare out the window instead of working. My skin itches for days. I eventually scratch, open the email, click on the site link. I need to see how the map of my people has changed.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Hannah Grieco
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The Folger Shakespeare Library is on a mission to renew interest in the written word. Their annual Reading Room Festival, which returns this weekend with an exciting lineup of guest actors and directors—including Macbeth In Stride’s Whitney White—is an important part of that mission.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Hannah Grieco
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Andrew Bertaina and Lauren Woods are two local authors who decided to transform the concept of a literary series (for the uninitiated, that’s lit-based events, which often revolve around author readings and group discussions) into something more personal and distinctive. The two D.C. residents host the 804 Lit Salon, a monthly gathering that takes place in their home.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
fracturedlit.com | Hannah Grieco
After signing the divorce papers, I get in my car and drive the three hours to my sister’s house. I can smell the ocean from her driveway as soon as I open my door. “Yes, Jesus, thank you,” Beth says when I offer to take Nelly and Grandma to the beach. It’s freezing, even now in late April, and Beth laughs when I complain, tells me, “You’re just not used to it.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
stonecirclereview.com | Hannah Grieco
by Hannah GriecoBilirubin like my heart used torise, code yellow despite theseworn-out thumps, theseelevated platelets, butteryveins, weighted skin clinginga depression of dermis. When did I start feeling so old? When did sleep become thinbecome a test runa preview, an old woman’safternoon nap, short and thenlong, and then drugged, and thenhours of foggy wandering, whendid I start feeling so tired?
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Annie Berke |Wayne Catan |Hannah Grieco |Sarah Marloff |Eve Ottenberg
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! In my opinion, every season is reading season, but there’s something about fall that makes you want to nestle down with a good book and a good drink. And with the new season comes an abundance of new books all vying for your attention. Below, City Paper’s book critics have dug into some upcoming and recent releases with local ties that span genres and styles to give you a head start on your fall reading list.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Dora Segall |Hannah Grieco |Colleen Kennedy |Camila Bailey |Jamaica Kalika
sPACYcLOUd, in partnership with DC Veg Restaurant Week, is hosting Food Revolution, an outdoor summer film series aimed at finding solutions to the problems in our modern food system. Every Thursday from late July through the end of August, as the sun sets, a big screen and projector are set up along 18th Street NW in front of the Adams Morgan cafe to show the films included in the series.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
bendinggenres.com | Hannah Grieco
A situation like this, a loss like this, would be hard on anybody. She finishes her burrito and throws two quarters and a nickel at the toll basket. Anyone would be a mess. “Sorry!” she calls back to the honking van behind her. She waves awkwardly, smiles, realizes the driver can’t see her. What is she doing? Exhale. She licks the sauce off her thumb. Fishes out another nickel from the cup holder. Balances the small Dr Pepper, just ice now, in the crook of her arm.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Hannah Grieco
(Author) FORMAT Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot or purely in your own mind?
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May 15, 2023 | 
atticusreview.org | Hannah Grieco
The look my son gives me when he walks in the room and I’m playing Risk of Rain 2 instead of finishing the chapter that’s due tomorrow. Not a look of admiration, which you might expect from a fifteen-year-old. That’s my mom! She’s almost killed Mithrix, and it’s not like I was ever going to read her novel anyway. My mom is cool!I am not cool. My kid expects more from me. He tells me this, reminds me that I have fifty pages due in two days and I have completed a miserable nineteen.
