Category Archives: Memoir

A World of Rumors

In which Samuel Sattin discovers that once a rumor enters the mainstream, let alone the bloodstream, it becomes truth. Continue reading

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Rambo in Byzantium

Falling is not a metaphor. Quentin Rowan’s life lessons in anger and words and conflicting versions of love from John Rambo to the library of Byzantium. Continue reading

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The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Meditation On Mitt Romney

Wherein Peter Mountford investigates the wealth required to refuse to be famous, and the obliviousness required to die beyond your means. A parable for Election Day and what it has wrought. Continue reading

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One Mile Square, A Night, A Life In Hoboken

Welcome To Hoboken: birthplace of baseball and Frank Sinatra and home to the best music venue in the NYC area. Amanda Nazario meditates on the Mile Square City and its many charms. Continue reading

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Chuck E is the Only One in Love

The night before Robin Antalek traveled across Alligator Alley to Miami with a carload of strangers in search of Rickie Lee Jones, she made out with her best friend’s boyfriend in the back of his van. Continue reading

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It Bites: Fumbling Through the Middle Passage

Janet Steen takes some fleeting moments to contemplate the midlife crisis in us all. Continue reading

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Dark Days – Life in Crack City

From comic books to cocaine, now nearly 30 years after crack’s appearance, Michael A Gonzales writes about Harlem at the height of the Crack Wars. Continue reading

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