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In Which We Fight From A Position Of Strength
Death by Rihanna by ALEX CARNEVALE Battleship dir. Peter Berg 131 minutes To comprehend all of Rihanna's dialogue in Peter Berg's Battleship is like sorting through the tendrils of 8th century Chinese...
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In Which We Knot Our Laces And Polish Our Shoes
Amerikanka by LUCY MORRIS When I was still new to Brighton Beach, a local gave me a three-word appraisal of the neighborhood: cranky, filthy, and smelly. He was right, at least, about the wind...
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In Which John Huston Rewrites Flannery O'Connor
Nonbeliever by SPENCER T. CAMPBELL Wise Blood dir. John Huston 108 minutes John Huston’s Wise Blood is a film without a memory. Early on, its protagonist, Hazel Motes — played like a lit matchstick by...
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In Which We Think Of A Reason For Our Trip
photo by xaviera simmons Ripped Bodice by BRITTANY JULIOUS I used to work on the block where a man tried to force me into his car. This was not the first time. The Rhona Hoffman Gallery, the reason for...
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In Which Dorothea Lange Attempts Matrimony
Forms of Taking It All by ELLEN COPPERFIELD They called it the slipper club. All of the photographer Dorothea Lange's friends were Jews; exiled for a second time from the mostly gentile areas of Nob,...
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In Which We Are Knocked Out Completely
You can enjoy the Saturday fiction archive here at your own leisure. Seventh by ANDREW DAVIS He woke with the faintest memory of a good time, the half-addled recollection of something pleasant in the...
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In Which We Become A Mystery To Ourselves
I Sometimes Really Feel That Way by ALICE BOLIN My first day teaching creative writing to middle schoolers, I walked into the room where my class would meet, normally a health classroom, and found a...
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In Which We Award Elvis Presley A Black Belt
Dr. John Carpenter by ELLEN COPPERFIELD Thanks to Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen's supremely detailed 1999 book, Elvis, Day by Day, the trivial details of Elvis Presley's life are open and...
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In Which Harmony Is A Totally Unusual Feeling For Us
from Images by INGMAR BERGMAN There are two godfathers to Fanny and Alexander. One of them is E.T.A. Hoffmann. Toward the end of the 1970s, I was supposed to direct Hoffmann at the Opera House in...
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In Which We Are Reserved And Utterly Dangerous
The Cold Side by KARA VANDERBIJL In the 12th or 13th century, a wealthy Dutch nobleman was captured and imprisoned by his enemies. When they heard the news, three of his servants vowed to break him...
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In Which We Get Loud So He Knows It Is Serious
photo by carrie schneider In Character by STEPHANIE ECHEVESTE I wear headphones tightly around my head, letting Jefferson Airplane explode, blocking out everything in a calm coolness, just to keep them...
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In Which We Remain Open To Suggestion
You can find our Saturday fiction archive here. Archie & Friends by YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG One morning Archie wakes with a pain and discovers that a nest of snakes has sprung from his heart. He...
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In Which We Add The Music And The Pool
Team Spirit by SARAH WAMBOLD The line was already three deep in front of the beer cooler at Casey’s convenience store in Cedar Rapids the Monday afternoon I drove to Iowa City. It was a gray day,...
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In Which We Can't Avenge Them If We're Dead
Bannermen by DICK CHENEY The time between when you make your wish and when it is granted comprises everything. As a mere hooligan who only cared about the marginal income tax rate, I did not...
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In Which We Barely Bring A Change Of Clothes
Goodbye Station by LUCY MORRIS I was up at Grand Central the other day and walked by the line of airport shuttles on 42nd Street, where I more than once deposited different boyfriends and where they...
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In Which We Travel The Aisles
Blue Islands by CATIE DISABATO Grocery shopping is an aesthetic experience. The cardboard boxes built to hold crackers are decorated with designs that the cracker companies hope will make you feel a...
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In Which It Hurts In Isolation Or With Others
Dream of a World Without Pain by ALICIA PUGLIONESI Horace Wells was a dentist in Connecticut in 1844 when the circus came to town. Wells watched as an audience volunteer inhaled laughing gas and then...
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In Which We Rappel From An Impressive Height
The Climb by SAM ZESULKA He had a cassette player and little else. Standing hurt a bit, but only if he stood for a long time. The hours were liminal; scarred by the pain, but not only the pain, the...
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In Which We Lather Our Sensibilities At Length
Reading at Berkeley I'm knocked out. I mean, I had a glass of whiskey. I said I hope nobody thinks I'm drunk. Man, I was high this afternoon, and I'm just exactly the same way now. On July 23rd 1965...
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In Which We Become A Useful Drunk
Substance Abuse by ELLEN COPPERFIELD Malcolm Lowry's biggest bout of binge drinking began when his suitcases were lost en route to New York in 1954. His wife Margerie was used to dealing with his...
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