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Storytime with Big Head

Brian Gabriel Canever

Reflections for grown-ups.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Before a Ball is Kicked

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I am afraid of what is soon to overtake me. Unlike in November 2022, when I published a version of this essay ju...

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Five Years on the Precipice

A photo my friend Chris took at Esperanza Market in April 2021.

I can stay here in the darkness
Feels like I’m wandering in circles for days
We never reach the gates
I’ll keep walking anyway.

—The Wonder Years, “No Clos...

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Nobody Cares. Keep Running.

At the starting line of the Knoxville Marathon in April 2025.

An earlier version of this story was published in May 2025.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.1

—Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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Playing with the Truth

Operating as a storyteller in the Age of Distraction.

When I still lived in Bayonne, I led a youth group at a Filipino Baptist church. And while the grown-ups were all natives of the island—rocking suits and ties on Sunday as the preacher,...

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A Chilling Pursuit

“The Wolf and the Hunter,” (1868) by Gustave Doré.

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    I write every week about getting older, coming to terms with failure, finding wonder in the ordinary, and whatever else piques my curiosity.

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