Beth Hahn
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You’re Out of the Night
From Flushing &Lower East Side &Queens &Uncategorized about 9/11, break year, friendship, growing up, Love, match.com, online dating, Queens, TeachingPublished on: 06/17/2016
Beth Hahn studied art and writing at The University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Necessary Fiction, The Hawai'i Review, The South Carolina Review, The Emrys Journal, Writer’s Digest and Largehearted Boy. She is the author of THE SINGING BONE: A NOVEL (Regan Arts 2016), and teaches writing at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. “You’re out of the Night” was read for the series Spine-Out: Novelists Read Personal Essays at Dixon Place. Beth lives in New Castle, New York, with her husband and two cats. beth-hahn.com
My Covid-19 project has been to drive to one of the many Staten Island parks that I haven’t previously visited and walk around, usually alone, and take pictures on my phone. I try not to think about the future too much. A few months ago, I drove to Graniteville Quarry Park—not to be confused with […]
It’s the swinging 70’s. Everyone I know has tons of sexual partners. I am 28 and only lost my virginity two years ago to a farm boy I met at The Guthrie Theater. The romance continues for a while when I get back to New York, but then, he writes me a Dear John letter. […]
Blanche, my mother, was past thirty, an old maid by the standards of the mid-twentieth century. She finally picked herself up and hauled herself off to a lefty resort in the Catskills, the kind of place where people were more likely to play Twenty Questions than tennis. There she met my father, Harold, who was […]
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