Michael Gonzales remembers a real friendship and the makings of a brutal crime novel.
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Partners in Crime: The Life, Loves & Nuyorican Noir of Jerry Rodriguez
Michael Gonzales remembers a real friendship and the makings of a brutal crime novel.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story
Captive Audience
When you live alongside anything for a long time — any person, any character, any narrative structure, any screen flicker — you become a part of it and it becomes a part of you.
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His Heart, Her Hands
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he had never recorded or written anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist, Naomi LaViolette, to work with him to save the music in his head.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
America’s Post-Frontier Hangover
America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume
Sometimes it takes a touch of darkness to create something alluring.
Posted inCommentary, Culture, Current Events, Reading List
A Reading List for Reconsidering the Fourth of July
How should we think about the Fourth of July given the current circumstances?
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Secrets We Keep
Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.
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The Secrets We Keep
Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Pam Houston on Coming Clean, Climate Change, and ‘Writing Deeply Into the Grasses’
Pam Houston’s new memoir is an ode to her beloved ranch, but also deals directly with the harrowing moments of childhood abuse that her fictional characters have been living through for years.
