Tag Archives: memoir

Playing the Donald Trump Game

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Fiona Helmsley

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 | 3 Comments

Mourning Becomes Leonora: For a German Shepherd

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Jana Martin

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 | 13 Comments

My Audition for the Ramones

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Robert Burke Warren

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 | 4 Comments

Sunday Light and Word – Racing into Oblivion

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Hank Cherry

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 | 1 Comment

On Losing Faith and Finding Myself Instead

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Sean Murphy

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 | Leave a comment

Sunday Light and Word – Cactus Bloom

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Hank Cherry

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 | 1 Comment

Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Sean Murphy

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 | 4 Comments