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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Category Archives: Memoir
The Book of Martyrs
Deirdre Day pushes the boundaries of the form with this illustrated essay about printing, family history, and the beauty of coincidence. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Book of Martyrs, Ilford, John Day, Kodachrome, photography, printing
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Don’t Blame Yourself
“I feel like I’m underwater. Like I’m asleep. I want to be asleep, even as my mouth forms half sentences that my heart rejects.” Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Children, family drama, Janine Canty, john ford coley, memoir, the pointer sisters
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The Flaw In the Force: The Star Wars Holiday Special
George Lucas tried his best to keep 1978’s Star Wars Holiday Special from ever being seen, but the Internet has bested him. Robert Burke Warren gives a kind overview to this perceived blight on Lucas’ legacy, and suggests you do the same. After all, it’s Christmas! (And/or Life Day.) Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Memoir, Popular Culture, Religion, The Arts
Tagged 1977, 1978, Boba Fett, cbs, chewbacca, Christmas, george lucas, life day, skywalker, Spielberg, Star Wars, star wars episode IV: a new hope, star wars holiday special, The Force Awakens
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Yours, Mine
In which the identity of Gabriel Mason is stolen, perhaps by Gabriel Masón. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir
Tagged Gabriel Mason, high art, literature, mistaken identity, philip roth, sexual harassment
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The Big One
Ben Tanzer lets it all hang out when discussing the gritty underside of his first true love. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged 70s, Ben Tanzer, charlies angels, fantasy island, farrah fawcett, hardy boys, kate jackson, leif garrett, Love, Lust, magazines, shaun cassidy, SWAT, tiger beat
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We Wish You a Merry Sixmas
Was there ever a better Christmas mixtape than Merry Sixmas? Likely not. Our music editor Robert Burke Warren takes us back to the 80s, when a second-generation cassette mix made by a stranger named Eddie G opened up a whole new way of listening to and sharing music. Continue reading
Learning Her Own Way
Janice Eidus on the trials and triumphs of educating her daughter. Continue reading
