Vanessa German: Laughter and Blackness
It is not like i am ashamed of my sorrow. or even ashamed of my rage. i am rage. i am outrage. i am the blues. i am blue. i … Continue reading
Kathleen O’Toole: Small Comfort — Writing Across Race
A voice on the radio back in 2001 started me down this road—the voice of Sarah Collins, whose sister Addie Mae was one of the four girls killed in the … Continue reading
Marilyn Monroe: Men Are Climbing To The Moon But They Don’t Seem Interested In The Beating Human Heart
[ed. note: On February 5th of 1961, a recently divorced, mentally exhausted Marilyn Monroe was taken by her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris, and committed to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: Oppression, Repression, and the American South
Freud’s Hydraulic Jack They say Freud found one of his principal metaphors about neurosis from the newly invented hydraulic jack, in which a chamber is filled with fluid and is … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Secret Cities of Ohio
there are a million secret cities in the middle of ohio. a million hidden gravel roads pressed deep into the way back like creases on the dark side of god’s … Continue reading
Video: Marilyn Monroe — Do I feel Happy in Life? (Rare Recording)
Excerpt from a rare 1960 audio interview for Marie Claire magazine combined with film clips of Marilyn.
Paul Christensen: On Solitude
I remember a teacher calling my name through a fog of meandering thoughts, and seeing all the faces in class turn to look back at me as I sat there … Continue reading
Sarita Gupta: Making America Work for Working People
For millions of working parents like me, the juggling act between our homes and offices gets even more frantic as our kids head back to school. My daughter just started … Continue reading
Henry David Thoreau: Simplicity
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail … I find it wholesome to be alone the … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: Subjectivity and the West
Subjectivity is the measure by which we accord dignity and gravitas to someone else. Without it, a person is just a thing, an object, and one may abuse it, ignore … Continue reading
Video: I was Ronald McDonald
Joe Maggard was McDonald’s mascot from 1995 to 2007 — the eighth of nine men to have done the job. But what happens after you step out of the big red … Continue reading
Jose Padua: And This is Where We Lived When We Lived in the City
He used to panhandle on Dupont Circle in the early 80s. That was where I’d get off from the subway at the end of the day when I worked at … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: On Risk and Compassion
Constant irony, constant obliquity, perpetual hipness, constant skipping the stone over deep water, afraid to speak, afraid to stand up for something, afraid to expose the heart, afraid to mean, … Continue reading
Djelloul Marbrook: Against Strunk and White
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White is a grammatical manifesto that has dominated American literature almost from the day of its Jazz Age publication in … Continue reading
