“For me, passing means trying to be anything other than what I was, and what I fear so desperately I always will be: poor white trash.”
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Low Country, High Water: A Reading List for a South Under Climate Change
How do you love a place that is sinking?
Posted inNonfiction
The Strange True Tale of ‘Castro’s No. 1 Killer’
Herman Marks, a drifter from Milwaukee, took a boat to Cuba with nothing but a Colt .45 revolver and $400 in cash. His plan? To join the revolution.
Posted inFeature
The Fact-Check and the Fury: A Chat With the Writers and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue
In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Leigh Baldwin and Sean Williams about co-writing “Follow the Leader.”
Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Can That Was Supposed to Help Save a City
The story of Chill-Can is the story of Youngstown, Ohio’s troubled approach to economic development.
Posted inFeature
The Fracking Lottery
“When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others’ access to environmental goods, taints democracy.”
Posted inStory
Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing
Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Notes for a Post-apocalyptic Novel
When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.
Posted inNonfiction
American Tests
In her quest to become truly American, Jakki Kerubo discovers what it means to belong in a place.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story, Writing
Miami: A Beginning
Jessica Lynne remembers a long distance love affair that began in Miami and the Billie Holiday song that kept her company through the relationship’s transitions.
