Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
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Posted inFeature, History, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Glass, Pie, Candle, Gun
Before he founded High Times, Tom Forcade was a renegade journalist willing to throw a pie—or a lawsuit—in the face of anyone restricting his constitutional freedoms.
Posted inNonfiction
Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Trans, Homeless, and Turning Tricks to Survive
Homeless trans teens: America’s most vulnerable population.
Posted inCulture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Home Is a Mixed Bag, Like America
Why would a successful black woman move from the Bay Area back to Mississippi?
Posted inBooks
This Week in Books: Pain and Power
“And it will hurt, but we won’t be the ones doing all of the feeling, finally.” -Harmony Holiday
Posted inNonfiction
Anaphylaxis of the Mind
Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“Although the world has made space for more diverse women, we are still expected to fill the role of the one who wants to be loved, to be a mother when perhaps we only ever wanted to paint, to write, to explore the world alone, on our own terms.”
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Week in Books: Farewell Longreads! I’m Taking This Rodeo to Substack.
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‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
In 1995, a Manhattan-bound J train crossing the Williamsburg Bridge rear-ended an M train, killing the J train operator and injuring more than fifty passengers. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has run the trains at suboptimal speeds ever since, while publicly blaming the systemwide slowdown on budget cuts and euphemisms for overcrowding. Village Voice transit reporter Aaron Gordon traces how […]
