You can’t write the book that you think other people wanna see. It’s not worth it.
Leaving Something Good Behind
Anthony Bourdain was the consummate New Yorker: brash, visceral, enigmatic and unapologetic; an unabashed lover of the bizarre and unusual, he was charming and affable, cocky and unruly—a marauding, take-no-prisoners street romantic. On an episode […]
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. One)
Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly, a biographical poetry collection about the history of the blues musician, and […]
The Person Improving Your Life
she sang, her voice now hoarse and raspy, sounding like a kitchen sink disposal
How to Survive a Nine to Five
Sometimes it may seem like there aren’t enough hours in the day, especially when you hate your job and have way too many goals to accomplish. When working a 9-5, you might feel like those […]
Two Poems by Madelyn Monaghan
feathered changelings in living cages
Finding a New Way
Next to a gas station on Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, a large building covered in colorful murals awaits a premature vacancy. The Silent Barn Collective, a DIY music venue and collaborative living and art […]
Plates in the Air
Julia Fierro plays many roles—in her works of fiction and life. She is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer (June 2017) and Cutting Teeth (2014) as well as the founder of The […]
Proud and Prejudiced
Last fall, the prodigious French writer Édouard Louis visited The New School as a guest of honour for the Fiction Forum. I wanted to hear his work based upon his international success and two bestselling […]
The Forest of Us
reveling in the feel of standing at the beginning of something, before it swallows me whole
Protected: Body: Ocean
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Anna Gregor
Boundaries 40″ x 22″ Oil on paper 2017 Nostalgia 30″ x 22″ Oil on paper 2017 Anna Gregor is a junior at Parsons studying Fine Arts and Art & Design History.
Poetry by Basil Vaughn Soper
staring up at fluorescent lights
Lay Off of Lena
In March’s Vogue, Lena Dunham revealed that after her decade-long struggle with endometriosis, she had an elective hysterectomy. The procedure was the Girls creator’s final attempt at alleviating the “excruciating pain” caused by the chronic […]
Finishing School
“It had to be written quickly, as these things are.”
Out on Canal
rat poison, rat traps, Ditrac, glue boards, Gentrol, bait stations, D-foam, peanut butter, and a small bottle of hand sanitizer
McDormand’s Demand
On March 4th, the Hollywood awards season came to a close with the 90th Academy Awards. It was a landmark ceremony for the Oscars: While several montages honored nine decades of past achievements in film, […]
Diptych
The First Calvary is a miniature city in its own right, set against the steel and glass of the Manhattan skyline—gray granite and marble towers rise from bright green grass that lays at the concrete feet of The City That Never Sleeps.
Two Poems by Daniela Ochoa
chicken juice-heart
A Few Hours at The Book Festival
I have often found that literary events fall into several distinct categories: those that I look forward to attending, those in which I feel obligated to attend, those that offer an open bar, those that […]