Growing up Liberian-American the terms gossip and storytelling were synonymous colloquially. This connection between the way we tell stories and the way we talk about each other and ourselves is something I’ve been grappling with in my own creative practice. It’s possible that the impulse we have to gossip and the impulse we have to tell stories are born from the same place: the desire to express our personal subjective truths. In my last three years as a writing student at Pratt, I’ve begun...

March 30, 2026 Newsletter Dearest Prattlers, This week’s newsletter features Junior Writing major Sydney Brewer’s insights on music streaming platforms and how they alter our relationships to music. Sydney Brewer (she/her) is a third-year writing major. She writes prose-poetry and fiction about diasporic experiences, language, and memory. Without further ado, here is Sydney’s newsletter, The Cost of Streaming @donaldoivanbarber/TikTok / Adobe Stock / @miss.mia777/TikTok Following last year...