Tag Archives: Zima

Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past: Steinbeck, Nostalgia, Empathy and Amtrak

What does Amtrak’s writer residency program signify about where we are artistically, culturally, and politically today? In 2014 we’re all about nostalgia, yet America’s infrastructure is slowly falling apart. Sean Murphy investigates. Continue reading

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Book. Band. Beverage.

What are the thirty things that need to be paired together, in one master curatorial stroke, in order for you to survive 2014? Continue reading

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In Honor of National Pot Smokers’ Day

In which Diana Spechler reminisces about illegally buying liquor, and the Boston College student who sold it to her. Love and drugs at the age of seventeen.
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