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“I Miss My Body When It Was Ferocious”: The Transfiguration of Paul Curreri
For years, singer-songwriter Paul Curreri was a shouter of singular beauty. Then he went quiet — slowly, at first, then all of a sudden.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
Posted inNonfiction
Nashville contra Jaws, 1975
In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘Imagine Us, Because We’re Here’: An Interview with Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob talks about why she wrote a graphic memoir, and why she is tired of performing her pain in order to help white people understand racism.
Posted inReading List
Alternative Reality: ‘California Divided’
A story about a blind, 88-year-old pharmacist in Memphis named Charles A. Champion, the end of All About Beer, and more in this alt weekly reading list.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Searching for The Sundays
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
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Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX
As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Year of the Cat
Elisabeth Donnelly looks back at a relationship with a wily cat during a lonely time in upstate New York.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Sports, Story
Almost Undefeated: The Forgotten Football Upset of 1976
How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.
