Turn the music up and tune into these five articles. 1. “The Soundtrack to My Late Blooming Sexual Awakening: A Round Table.” (Rachel Vorona Cote, Kirsten Schofield, Sarah Seltzer, and Lindsay King-Miller, The Hairpin, August 2014) What maelstrom of musicians is this?! These four authors elaborate on everyone from Usher to Fiona Apple as they reminisce […]
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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist
Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his most dangerous journey.
Our Music, Our Lives: A Reading List
Turn the music up and tune into these five articles. 1. “The Soundtrack to My Late Blooming Sexual Awakening: A Round Table.” (Rachel Vorona Cote, Kirsten Schofield, Sarah Seltzer, and Lindsay King-Miller, The Hairpin, August 2014) What maelstrom of musicians is this?! These four authors elaborate on everyone from Usher to Fiona Apple as they reminisce […]
A Woman on the Margins
An interview with Vivian Gornick about the problem with writing programs, the memoir’s potential for dishonesty, and finding her way as a writer.
A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson
She was less like a recluse, more like a bomb going off.
A Stranger in the World: The Memoir of a Musician on Tour
The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay on DIY touring in the punk underground of the former Soviet Union.
Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers
The radical women of early Christianity.
When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
The Vanishing: What Happened to the Thousands Still Missing in Mexico?
More than 23,000 people have gone missing during Mexico’s drug wars. Every year, their families make a trek to Monterrey seeking answers.
