Loren Rhoads's Writings
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Essay
Sep.05.2011
CemeteryTravel.com
I wrote my 100th Cemetery Travel post earlier in the month, so it feels like a good time for reflection. I was fascinated to discover Tripbase’s My 7 Links Project, in which bloggers look back over their posts and highlight their favorites in seven categories. I had a good time reading through the last six months’ worth of cemeteries. My favorites follow....
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Article
May.31.2011
CemeteryTravel.com
Père Lachaise (pronounced pear la shez) is the most important cemetery in the modern history of the Western dead. Spanning 108 acres, the first ornamental cemetery in the West is probably the most visited cemetery in the world.
Prior to its creation, the bulk of defunct Europeans were jammed into anonymous mass graves in churchyards or jumbled together in...
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Short Story
Jan.01.2011
Wily Writers
Excerpt
Alondra had never done this kind of magic before. It felt awful, dirty. Her head ached from the concentration it took. Still, she sat in the quaint café, drinking peppermint tea. Teeth gritted, she traced sigils for summoning in the moisture her glass left on the birch tabletop.
She’d never been to Oslo before, spoke almost no Norwegian, but that...
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Article
Sep.04.2009
Quigley's Cabinet
A short meditation on the Old Jewish Cemetery through the lens of Rabbi Loew and his Golem, written for the blog Quigley's Cabinet.
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Article
Apr.27.2009
Morbid Outlook
Founded in 1840, Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery followed in garden cemetery movement pioneered by Cambridge’s Mount Auburn. That is, they weren’t connected to churches, but accepted wealthy people of all faiths. A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries claims, “Green-Wood’s beauty ultimately inspired the contest to design Central Park.” In...
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Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. Curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. It is a way to affect change -- even to initiate global change -- on a personal level.”
—Loren's introduction to Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
About Loren
For 10 years, I edited the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner published Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues in 2009. Now I'm blogging about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel (http://cemeterytravel.com). A collection of my cemetery...
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Clarion Write-a-Thon
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Loren’s Favorite Books
Tinker at Pilgrim Creek, A Natural History of the Senses, How We Die, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Gods, The Bloody Chamber, Owls Hoot in the...
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