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Time Off the Bench

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On the social lives of Supreme Court justices.

Source: Washington Post
Published: Mar 1, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2,100 words)

The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients

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An attorney remembers the life of a death row inmate killed by the state of Texas.

Source: Texas Observer
Published: Mar 11, 2016
Length: 19 minutes (4,884 words)

Should Fiction Be Timeless?

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On the place of pop culture references in literature.

Published: Jan 19, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2,094 words)

Playing for Time

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As his son battles terminal cancer, a father channels his grief into the creation of a video game unlike any other.

Author: Jason Tanz
Source: Wired
Published: Jan 5, 2016
Length: 26 minutes (6,688 words)

The Devil Gives You the First Time for Free

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Mike Sager’s 2005 Esquire interview with Scott Weiland.

Author: Mike Sager
Source: Esquire
Published: Apr 1, 2005
Length: 22 minutes (5,694 words)

The Life and Times of Strider Wolf

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Sarah Schweitzer’s moving story of a young boy and his brother, rescued from near-fatal abuse, now in the care of grandparents who have their own difficulties making things work.

Source: Boston Globe
Published: Nov 30, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,618 words)

‘Unyielding Boredom’: On the Slow Passage of Time Behind Bars

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It was an interesting microcosm of adapted culture and could be really inspiring. (Inspiring maybe because I’m a nerd and was so bored I had to do something with my own brain.) People will figure out a way to amuse themselves, to connect, to re-frame, to reconcile, to make a home in the most unlikely of places. I may have laughed more, and harder, there than anytime in my life. (Also, cried. Also, raged.) The process of the whole thing (according to Viktor Frankl) follows the stages of grief. It was fascinating to watch that go down over and over with new arrivals. Once you reach surrender, there is some psychological space. And for the people who had access, there were really interesting shifts of perspectives and growth.

-At The Weeklings, Sean Beaudoin interviewed ex-convict, prison reform activist and author Meg Worden about the twenty-three months she served at Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, for transporting 5,000 ecstasy pills from New York to Missouri–an experience she says wasn’t entirely unlike what is depicted on “Orange is the New Black.”

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The Wild Times of Billy Idol

Before there was pop-punk, there was Billy Idol. More than any other artist of his era, the man born William Broad brought the style and attitude of punk rock into the American mainstream, via massive hits including “White Wedding” and “Rebel Yell.”

For this, he was both celebrated and vilified. Fans adored Idol’s bad-boy image and his music’s cagey mix of aggressive guitars, dance beats and pop hooks. But to his detractors, he was a fraud — the “Perry Como of punk,” in Johnny Rotten’s famously dismissive phrase.

Throughout his career, Idol has seldom addressed such criticisms directly. But in his latest album, Kings and Queens of the Underground, and a new [2014] memoir, Dancing With Myself, both released last October, the veteran singer clearly is shoring up his legacy. Both the book and the album’s title track explore at length his role in the birth of British punk, as lead singer of the band Generation X and part of the crew that launched the Roxy, London’s first punk-rock club, in 1976.

Andy Hermann writing in LA Weekly about the musical highs and personal lows of the singer with the snarling lip and studded leather wrist-guards, Billy Idol. Hermann’s piece ran in February, 2015.

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My Writing Education: A Time Line

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Why do our writing teachers have such a huge impact on us? George Saunders on early lessons learned.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 23, 2015
Length: 16 minutes (4,201 words)

The Art World: Like Time Travel for Women

It’s strange, in the years of Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer changing comedy, and Tina Fey making room in TV, and Hillary Clinton making her cicada-like, quadrennial return, to pan the camera across the rigid men’s club of the arts. From the Chelsea galleries to the spring and fall auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s (which offer the gender composition of a pro football team) to the museums where schoolchildren walk hesitantly on field trips to see the visual products the culture has treasured. Where every other aspect of American life has changed, the Art World offers this wonderful scientific breakthrough of time travel.

Pat Lipsky, writing in The Awl about the difficulty of being a woman in the art world. Lipsky’s essay, which draws on her personal experiences as an artist coming of age in the ’60s, is beautiful, vivid, and deeply depressing.

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