My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
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My Date with Hollywood
Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
Posted ininvestigations, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
This Is How a Woman Is Erased From Her Job
After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure
On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
La Otra
When a woman and her daughter moved in next door, Jaquira Díaz found her world was suddenly turned upside down.
Posted inNonfiction
The Religion No One Talks About: My Search For Answers in an Old Caribbean Faith
Writer Sarah Betancourt explores her connections to Espiritismo and Santeria.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Date with Hollywood
Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, History, Story
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: America’s Secret Weapon in World War II
How “know-nothings” Elizebeth Smith Friedman and William F. Friedman became the greatest codebreakers of their era.
Posted inStory, Travel
Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)
An amateur geographer travels to an undocumented island off the coast of Haiti after stumbling upon it on Google Earth.
