Meet the Table Busser Who’s Worked at the Same Wilmette Pancake House for 54 Years

Othea Loggan made minimum wage in 1964. He makes minimum wage now. The owners are somehow fine with that.

Source: Chicago Tribune
Published: Aug 30, 2018
Length: 12 minutes (3,195 words)

Beyond Goop and Evil

Why don’t women feel well? We’ve come down with an advanced case of patriarchy.

Source: The Baffler
Published: Sep 4, 2018
Length: 14 minutes (3,508 words)

It Was Like There Was a Fog in the Sky Only I Could See

Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are getting deported with increasing frequency through the criminal justice system, though these deportees receive less media attention than ones from Mexico and Central America. The African nations they return to are not often home or welcoming, and deportees suffer from hostility, alienation, depression and economic hardship.

Source: Popula
Published: Aug 31, 2018
Length: 33 minutes (8,341 words)

Native New Yorkers Reflect on the Death of the ‘Village Voice’

From love to rage to resignation.

Author: Eve Peyser
Source: Vice Magazine
Published: Aug 31, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,634 words)

White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work

An essay in which author and academic Angela Pelster-Wiebe considers the best ways for white authors and artists to quit side-stepping the subjects of deeply rooted structural racism and their own privilege, and help dismantle white supremacy with their work.

Source: LitHub
Published: Aug 29, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,798 words)

I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.

“When scholars defend Avital — or ‘complicate the narrative,’ as we like to say — in part this is because we cannot stand believing what most people believe. The need to feel smarter is deep. Intelligence is a hungry god. “

Published: Aug 30, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,907 words)

Oh! Small-bany! Part 2

The second chapter in Novelist Elisa Albert’s Albany “quartet.” Notes from an awful winter.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 31, 2018
Length: 23 minutes (5,940 words)

The American Nightmare: 10 Years After the Housing Collapse

For The Penny Hoarder‘s first longform project, Desiree Stennett and Lisa Rowan share the stories of lives forever changed after losing their homes at the height of the financial crisis. So many families haven’t woken up from what still feels like their own personal nightmare, even though more than 9 million Americans are having the same dream.

Published: Aug 27, 2018
Length: 44 minutes (11,000 words)

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage

A wide-ranging piece of investigative journalism — the result of four years of research — on widespread abuse and in some cases, the killing of children at St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage in Vermont and other orphanages, in the 20th century.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Aug 27, 2018
Length: 108 minutes (27,057 words)

Why We Cross the Border in El Paso

A personal essay in which Mexican-American writer Victoria Blanco reflects on change over the years at the border between El Paso, Texas, and Cuidad, Juárez, as immigration patrolling has become increasingly restrictive, and how the Rio Grande, which lies between the two towns, has begun drying up as a result of climate change.

Source: Catapult
Published: Aug 30, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,856 words)