Prelude

After Frank O’Hara on that Friday night you queued up for fried chicken your jacket was beige your reflection softened…

Memoir: Tales From the Classroom

It all began with my glasses and the two front teeth that jutted out of my mouth. These other tiny…

When I went to LA, I’d walk to the local store every morning. I’d take the corn dog off the…

Scott Cumming’s ‘A Chapbook About Nothing’ illustrates the feeling of being a newborn adult. Assumptions of stability trail behind us…

Every few months, I wonder if I’m a blowfish whose bursts of inflation go unnoticed by the other fish, but…

It is almost 6 pm, and I am listening to Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ on audiobook. The evenings…

Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ is a novel that was published posthumously. The book was born from a journal found in…

hotel rooms with you burn like vodka carpets / my conscience cannot bear the hardship we left behind but then…

For most of us, the idea that the sole purpose of women was to have children has long since died.…

I am just going to come out and say it. I don’t like, nor do I, rating books. Now, people…