In the living room, my dad was sitting in the dark. He was wearing his shoes in the house (very exceptional behavior for him). Of his face, I could only see his open eyes through the gloom: they stared blankly into the open space of the room. His shoulders were hunched from elbows propped on his knees, and his hands were held out before him, like... Read more
The hospital by our house is immense. I live in a fairly rural area, and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center makes everything within 50 miles look like Legos. It's hidden by a small forest and so it looms and bends towards you when you finally break through to its network of parking lots. As daunting as it may seem to many, the medical center... Read more
Nikolai Hamel: Briefly, what is your project and what inspired it? How did you choose the name?
Gabriela Mejia: My project is to produce and curate a coffee table book called CLEAVAGE: New Ways to Look. It's a deliberately seductive art book, focused on edgy and provocative visual and textual representations of cleavage and... Read more
I wasn't present for the actual event, but I do remember the before and after. I can't say my mom acted quickly. She really let it get to the final strand before taking the next step, but she finally shaved it all off.
I'm remembering her hair of course, or lack thereof. I suppose it would have been something if my mom was a young hipster... Read more
Nikolai Hamel: You've written for several popular television shows, including Felicity, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, and now, Gossip Girl. With such a creative background, you easily could have written a fictional account of your story. How did you decide to write a non-fiction account? Or did you just know that you had to tell your... Read more
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