Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Blackstars
Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Blackstars
Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
Lock Your Doors?
A new homeowner reads two novels that revolve around surreal home-invasion scenarios, and considers what it is about his house that scares him.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone?
Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.
Posted ininvestigations, Nonfiction, Story
The Lost Genocide
Why the United Nations may never be able to prosecute the Rohingya genocide.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Your Best Work Comes from Scaring Yourself
Essayist Chelsea Hodson had to give herself permission to be uncomfortable.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
Posted inNonfiction
Raising Brown Boys in Post-9/11 America
Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’
