Lena Dunham’s (often groundbreaking, often controversial) show gets its own oral history, days before its sixth and final season is about to start.
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Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
New York Radical Women and the Limits of Second Wave Feminism
The collective redefined feminism in the 1970s, but it’s blind spots still linger, especially for black women.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Jeff Goldblum Prefers Pouring Orange Juice in His Cereal
The actor is a steadfast convert, but does that mean the actor is right?
Posted inEditor's Pick
“It Smelled Like Death”: An Oral History of the Double Dare Obstacle Course
An entertaining behind-the-scenes look at how the obstacle course in a popular Nickelodeon game show was put together.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Agony and the Angst: An Oral History of My So-Called Life
“Television is a very different world now. But you know what? The show had the perfect life.” Winnie Holzman, the creator of “My So-Called Life,” tells the story behind the show, along with crew and cast members including Wilson Cruz, Devon Odessa, and Devon Gummersall.
Posted inBooks, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Chasing the Harvest: ‘It Used to Be Only Men That Did This Job’
In this oral history, a produce truck driver and former lettuce worker recounts the sexual harassment she faced while working in the fields of Salinas Valley, California.
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Anaphylaxis of the Mind
Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Where Were You the First Time You Realized the Government Wasn’t Always On the Ball?
The 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara galvanized environmental activism, and Pacific Standard’s oral history is a great read.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
In the Age of the Psychonauts
Three psycho-spiritual “events” of the 1970s — involving Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence and Dennis McKenna — had a strange synchronicity.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
The Month That Killed the Sixties
An oral history of how everything went to hell in December 1969. Fred Hampton was killed by the police, the hippie spirit died at Altamont, and the Weathermen went underground.
