In this excerpt from the 12th Street interview, Téa Obreht talks backstory, process and the questions we’d love to ask our own work with Online Managing Editor, Kate Cox.
Téa Obreht: How We Make Meaning, Makes Us
Letter from The Editor
In preparation for our Issue 5 launch event this Wednesday, May 9th, here are some final reflections from our Editor-in-Chief. Writing and Democracy. As students in the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy, we talk […]
Dear Reader: I Am Here Because of You
community |kəˈmyoōnitē| noun ( pl. -ties) 1 a group of people living together in one place, esp. one practicing common ownership. Dear Reader, True story: I am here because of you. Really, I am. Though, […]
A Conversation with Elissa Schappell
An Excerpt from the 12th Street Interview
In this excerpt from the 12th Street interview, Elissa Schappell discusses womanhood from era to era with Charlotte Slivka. Elissa Schappell is the author of Use Me, a collection of linked short stories and finalist […]
12th Street Issue # 5 Launch and Reading
About the Event: POLITICS AND LETTERS COME TOGETHER FOR AN EVENING OF READINGS BY ELISSA SCHAPPELL, TÉA OBREHT, AND STUDENT CONTRIBUTORS TO 12TH STREET ISSUE 5, PUBLISHED BY THE NEW SCHOOL WRITING PROGRAM. Date and time: Wednesday, May 9th, […]
Sarah Schulman: An American Witness
Part 2: Occupy Student Debt, and the Beauty of Being Uncomfortable
For many activists Sarah Schulman is an important source of meaningful and effective lessons in social change. For more than ten years, her and her long time collaborator Jim Hubbard have been interviewing members of ACT UP, for their ACT UP Oral History Project, ensuring the experience of the seminal AIDS activist group are lost in history. Earlier this year, The New York Times published Schulman’s deftly researched op-ed, “Pinkwashing” and Israel’s Use of Gays as a Messaging Tool to frenzied response. Later this year a slate of films, books and creative projects about the early days of AIDS, including United in Anger, a film produced by Schulman, and directed by Hubbard, will be released. Schulman’s influence cannot be understated.
Writers in the World, Messages in the Street
By Ted Kerr, Managing Editor, 12th Street “In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street,” starts David Markson’s Wigginstien’s Mistress, a novel about a woman wandering the globe thinking she may be the […]
The Past, the Present and the Process: Patrick McGrath
Patrick McGrath is the author of two short story collections, Blood and Water and Other Tales and Ghost Town, and seven previous novels including Asylum, Martha Peake, Dr. Haggard’s Disease and Port Mungo. His novel, […]
Sarah Schulman: An American Witness
Part 1: Gentrification, Trauma, & Sex
Sarah Schulman is one of America’s most profound witnesses. As a writer, activist and caretaker she has seen HIV/AIDS from the beginning. She was an early member of ACT UP, the seminal social action AIDS […]
H.O.M.E.S.
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Water finds ways
to communicate
to look inside the unspoken door of history.
Listen during a North-Eastern wind
and the waves and commotions of the molecules
will rumble like a chorus
12th Street Online Launch
Join us to celebrate 12th Street Online’s launch with an evening of readings by Patrick McGrath, Leigh Stein, Sarah Schulman and student editors and contributors. Hosted by Robert Polito.
Reading Egypt: from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park
If the news is anything to be believed: Egypt is a nation in a state of more or less constant political and social strife; Egyptians are nearly all Islamists, coercing the few and far between […]
Don’t Go to Alabama!
Don’t go to Alabama! Don’t go if you’re not white, that is. On June 9, 2011, the State of Alabama passed the HB56 Immigration Bill. This bill allows for the state to profile, harass, and […]
Grrrl in the Ballet Flats
1. The girl with scratched pink ballet flats sat carefully counting her change. Piled on her lap: nickel, quarter, penny, dollar at a time, disappeared into the pocket of a black jacket. Leather, maybe. Her […]
Interview with Christine Sneed
Writer Christine Sneed chats about her 40th birthday, Tea Partyland, clowns, pettymindedness, sex-scoundrels, her forthcoming novel, and why she writes stories.
Writers and Occupy Wall Street: A review of Reading + OWS Discussion
What do raps about the working class, Shakespeare monologues and stories about the south have in common? What responsibilities do writers have within the OWS movement?
On Friday, November 4, New School Riggio Writing and Democracy students along with friends gathered to find out during an event entitled Reading + OWS Discussion While the Reading is a regular event, the discussion about Occupy Wall Street was added as an acknowledgement that the movement is impacting lives.
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Midway through Joan Didion’s memoir Blue Nights, she recognizes tone as though it were a found object held in her hand— a photograph of her daughter Quintana Roo, who died in 2009. It’s not stoicism that keeps her from staring at it but more of a kind of nimbleness (or agility?) of mind, flipping through a book of sketches of when Quintana was three years old, of when she got married—the stephanotis woven into her braid—and ultimately, when she passed away.
Occupy Wall Street – A Photo Essay Part 2
I am not well informed on the intricacies of the national budget, international trade policies, or even how exactly a hedge fund works. I’m embarrassed to say that I remain averagely ignorant on how exactly […]
Letter from The New School President 10-6-11
To the New School Community:
New School students are encouraged to devise peaceful, practical solutions to long-standing problems of inequality. As events that began on Wall Street over the last few weeks continue to unfold on the international stage, some of our students are working with peers, questioning long-held assumptions, and picking up the mantle of leadership…
Occupy Wall Street – A Photo Essay – Part 1
Occupy Wall Street has been building momentum for the past few weeks. Coincidentally, as the protesters set up camp at Liberty Plaza, I traveled upstate to help cater an annual party hosted by the CEO […]