Antoinette Bumekpor and I enter the office and immediately can feel the energy of the room– a room we both have not spent time in....
Eat Shit: McDonalds, by Zoe Marquedant
I call my parents habitually most weekends, but that Sunday I avoided telling them more than usual. I merely said I was having brunch with...
Women Who Write: Alanna Duncan, Interviewed by Paulina Pinsky
Alanna is seated at a two-person table in the back of the posh and dimly lit wine bar Ardesia in Hell’s Kitchen. She is the...
Women Who Write: Zoe Marquedant, Interviewed by Paulina Pinsky
I am sitting in front of a half-eaten burrito bowl in a booth at 1020. I text Zoe, “quick— what do you want to drink”...
Women Who Write: Catherine Northington, Interviewed by Paulina Pinsky
Catherine and I are standing on the train platform waiting for the one train. We’re both bitching about things we hate, so I decide this...
Peak Inside: Can’t Pull The Cancer Card on Heartbreak, by Emily Jack
The cancer card will get you a lot: free samples, discounts, meals. Having cancer is also the ultimate excuse to avoid most situations. However, it...
Women Who Write: Taleen Mardirossian, Interviewed by Paulina Pinsky
Taleen Mardirossian sits on the beaten-in black couch in the Writing Office next to me. Having had the privilege of having her in my nonfiction...
Hell of a Town: “On Subterranean Stew”, by Catherine Northington
My commute to school is an easy one. Sometimes. It’s straightforward—for New York, anyway: I hop on the ⅔ in Prospect Heights and ride that...
Natural Occurences: “Surviving Winter, Raptor Rescue Up North”, by Ellyn Gaydos
It was the beginning of Winter Storm Grayson when I went to visit Craig Newman at his raptor rescue. “Outreach for Earth Stewardship” is a...
Peak Inside: “Give It Up”, by Emily Jack
When I was diagnosed with cancer my entire life changed. My life was threatened and then put on hold, I lost all of the structure...
Things That Caught My Eye: “The Last Jedi”, by Alex Dabertin
If you’ve seen The Last Jedi you’ll know what scene caught my eye—you know, the one in the mirror. Yeah, that one. Holy shit that...
Things That Caught My Eye: High Noon / Rio Bravo, by Alex Dabertin
High Noon / Rio Bravo The Western is one of the three American political landscape genres (the other two are twins: the crime saga and...