Required Reading
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Resist Dirty Rubles
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
- The Worst People in America: Donald Trump
- They Found Him in Vegas: The Guy Who Did It, the House Next Door
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Tag Archives: memoir
Playing the Donald Trump Game
I noticed a phenomenon during this election. Vulnerable, marginalized people supporting Donald Trump—or at least claiming publicly to support Donald Trump. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Memoir
Tagged Art of the Deal, Donald Trump, memoir, poverty, Trump the Game
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Mourning Becomes Leonora: For a German Shepherd
She is my walk through Brooklyn, my arm toss in the park, my sit on the stoop, my weekend up in the country, my never alone, my not going to die for such a long time it feels like forever, my Lee. Continue reading
Posted in animals, Appreciations, Memoir
Tagged animals, canines, death, dogs, german shepherds, Jana Martin, Love, memoir, pets
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So Many Highways
I set out on the road wanting to discover who shot my mother when she was seventeen — from a forthcoming memoir by Darlin’ Neal.
My Audition for the Ramones
Music editor Robert Burke Warren takes us back to his 1989 audition for The Ramones. Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged C.J. Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, johnny ramone, marky ramone, memoir, punk rock, robert burke warren, the ramones, Tommy Ramone
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Sunday Light and Word – Racing into Oblivion
Searching the angles of chance. Continue reading
Posted in Sunday Light and Word
Tagged 25, 30, failure, Failure gets everything, Fall in love, Falling in Love, Fan in Motion, GMC cage, Green Grows the Rushes, Hank Cherry, Hank Cherry Photography, Hank Cherry Poetry, Last of Sunday Light and Word, Looking Back, Looking Forward, memoir, Memoir Poems, Nowhere to get to, Oblivion, Oversize Tire, Pack of Cards, Racing, So Lovely, Spearmint Gum, Sunday Light and Word, Window Reflections
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On Losing Faith and Finding Myself Instead
AUGUST 30, 2002. I was in a church for the first time in forever. The church where I received the Sacrament of Confirmation. The church where my parents celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. The church where my sister was … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Dostoyevsky, faith, Kurt Vonnegut, memoir, Milan Kundera, Organized Religion, Sean Murphy, Ursula K. LeGuin
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Sunday Light and Word – Cactus Bloom
Searching the angles of chance. Continue reading
Posted in Sunday Light and Word
Tagged Baby Shit Brown River, Cactus Bloom, Charles Street, Clapboard Shack, Discarded Big Screen Television, Escort Guide, Frogtown Puddles, Hank Cherry Photography, Hollywood, Hollywood Construction, Leaky Knowledge, memoir, mississippi river, My Side of the Mountain, Old Chevy Pickup, Porn Paper, Scholastic Authoritarianism, Shack, Streetwalking friends, The line at In and Out Burger, Think Safety, Tomato Wars
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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
Question: What’s a writer to do in an era where memoirs are assumed to be fictional and novels are, increasingly, considered thinly-veiled cris de coeur? Answer: Deny Everything. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, The Arts
Tagged Anthony Burgess, david foster wallace, fiction, james frey, Jonathan Yardley, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary Theory, memoir, Milan Kundera, Not To Mention a Nice Life, Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone, Sean Murphy, The Things They Carried, The Weeklings, Tim O'Brien
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An Excerpt from “Gun Needle Spoon”
A taste of the new memoir, dropping on Tuesday, from the only Weeklings contributor who has ever robbed a bank. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged bank robbers, drugs, Dzanc Books, memoir, Patrick O'Neal, recovery
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Formerly Edna’s: My House in the Country
When Teresa Giordano bought a country house in the Catskills, she got a lot more than she bargained for. On the everpresent connection between one home and its past, especially on windy nights. Continue reading
The Dusty Tail, or We Were In Boise
When Timothy Braun’s beloved travel companion Dusty had a bump on his tail, the news was shattering. A story of the hand-drawn stars aligning on the walls of a plastic Elizabethan collar. Continue reading
Blood on the Hallowed Ground
Ian F. Blair plays a game of basketball with his brother as he recounts the memory of his father’s death in an evocative, pulsing essay about cancer, family, and race. Continue reading
