Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- 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
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Author Archives: Janet Steen
Mother Love
Watching a parent age can be brutal, ridiculous, and sometimes downright amazing, Janet Steen writes. Try your best not to look away. Continue reading
On Wanting to Make a Guy Bleed, and Why Freaks and Geeks Was the Best Television Show About High School Ever
In which Janet Steen remembers curling irons, drunken kisses, and the brilliance of “Freaks and Geeks.” Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Freaks and Geeks, James Franco, Judd Apatow, Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes
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On Watching Downton Abbey in Jamaica with Richard the Night Watchman, and Other Musings
Lord Grantham in Jamaica, William James in the astral plane, and other unknowable things that Janet Steen has lately been pondering. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged acupuncture, Downton Abbey, ghosts, Jamaica, kale, Leonora Piper, William James
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Misfits Unite
Janet Steen finds sonic bliss on a stretch of American strip mall…and then seeks out the musician who inspired it. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Camden Joy, David Bowie, Devin Davis, Elliott Smith, John Updike, misfits, Stephen Malkmus, Yoko Ono
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On Loving Art, Imperfectly
In which Janet Steen contemplates why, as a so-called literary person, she can be such a half-assed reader. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Denis Johnson, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Auster, Paula Fox
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