The Home-Pool Advantage: Is It Real or Just a Myth? In the world of competitive swimming, the idea of the “home-pool advantage” has been debated for a long time. Coaches, swimmers, and fans have long ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Anyone who owns their own pool knows it’s not as simple as filling it up with water and jumping in whenever you want. There’s pool covers to deal with, regular cleaning with the pool vacuum and ...