Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
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Posted inBooks, Science & Nature
We Should Be Talking About the Effect of Climate Change on Cities
But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’
Five years after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, a husband is still searching the sea for his missing wife, joined by a father looking for his daughter.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
How to Get Away with Spying for the Enemy
How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? Writer Sarah Laskow digs into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Soviets—even after he confessed to it.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
What We Eat When We’re Eating at Christmastime: A Reading List
It’s always the same: a morning arrives in November, and my friend, as though officially inaugurating the Christmas time of year that exhilarates her imagination and fuels the blaze of her heart, announces: “It’s fruitcake weather! Fetch our buggy. Help me find my hat.” “A Christmas Memory,” Truman Capote ’Tis the season! A time for awkwardly posed […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
When cuteness comes of age
What is “cute”? A writer flies to Japan to find a culture conflicted over cuteness.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Guatemalan Chef Who Became a Hiroshima Comfort Food Star
Matt Goulding follows the origin story of okonomiyaki, the harmoniously messy pancake that has become a staple of post-war Hiroshima cuisine.
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.
