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Category Archives: Memoir
Young Adult, Part II
The tranquility of an artists’ colony is shattered as one of the members has a breakdown, impersonating the colony’s children – including Quentin Rowan. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Artists Colonies, Carole Maso, children's literature, Cummington, Quentin Rowan, William Cullen Bryant
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Goodnight, Sweet Print
Novelist Ted Heller asks: e-book or not e-book? Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Popular Culture
Tagged e-reader, Funnymen, Jonathan franzen, Kindle, Monica Vitti, Nook, Slab Rat, West of Babylon
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Some Thrive, Some Die
Ruminations on the end. And The End. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Cat, death, ennui, life, new testament, the quick and the dead, thrive
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Young Adult – Part I
The tranquility of an artists’ colony is shattered as one of the members has a breakdown, impersonating the colony’s children – including Quentin Rowan. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Artists Colonies, Carole Maso, children's literature, Cummington, Quentin Rowan, William Cullen Bryant
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Driving and Writing (or How I Lost My First Royalty Check)
Rob Roberge on mangoes, tamales, chrome, and the widely frowned upon crime of driving while writing. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged advance, driving, fighting on the side of the road, illegal food truck, LA, Mango, urinals, writer
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The Boy Who Loved Books
“Seemingly trivial but secretly significant moments sustained me through a dark decade growing up under Margaret Thatcher,” writes Damian Barr, “in a coal-mining village near Glasgow that was destroyed by her policies, in a family that was torn apart.” Continue reading
Five Comrades in The Black Panther Party, 1967-1970
Judy Juanita on joining the Black Panthers and revisiting the movement now some 40 years later Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Black Panthers, bobby seale, huey newton, judy juanita, oakland, Virgin Soul
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Tapering
In her Weeklings debut, Sarah Beller recalls a period of time when she mixed drugs: love and Xanax. Continue reading
My Brief and Brilliant Career As a Corporate Bush Leaguer
No climb up the corporate ladder is complete without the company picnic. The undoing of Jose Padua and his career in direct marketing. Continue reading
Dear Future Child
In which Chantal Claret asks the age-old question: to be a mom, or not to be a mom? Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Music
Tagged babies, Chantal Claret, little boys and girls, motherhood, rock mommies, rock n roll
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GODDAMN DOGS
It’s not a dog’s life. No, but as a dog walker Amanda Nazario gets a new view of life, love and the city… Continue reading
Shaking Hands with the Klansman
Ronlyn Domingue recalls her encounter with Louisiana gubernatorial candidate and Nazi enthusiast David Duke. Continue reading