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Dumpster Chicken

1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Letting Go: The History of New York City

“Don’t worry about it, New York City makes a lot of people cry,” so says my student, Laura. But still I wonder — why...

Backtalk

In the 1960’s, Alice Kramden was my television hero for standing up to her loser husband on The Honeymooners. “One of these days, Alice,” Ralph...

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Teaching in the Times of Genocide

September 27, 2024. Beirut. We have already lost one of our students. No. We have not lost him. He was killed. Murdered. Yes. Murdered in Beirut....

The Dock

“You’re such a patient man,” my Lizzie would tell me, sometimes with a watery fondness that made me feel like my life was worth...

Like some animal

that must gnaw off its leg to escape a trap,the trap being the version of you I carry —a committed method actor, Mom,her lines...

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading