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In Which We Sound The Airhorn For Molly's Very Last This Recording Post
<3 by MOLLY LAMBERT One time Alex Carnevale asked me if I wanted to work on a website he was going to start. "What kind of website?" "A web magazine." "Ha ha ha." I said. "A web magazine." Like...
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In Which We Develop A Radiant New Love For Literature
Our Novels, Ourselves This Thursday, This Recording unveils our list of the 100 Greatest Novels. This will likely be the final word on the subject, and a key to the city will be presented to us in the...
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In Which We Can Feel The Horses Long Before Horses Enter the Scene
Girl Geniuses by ANN FRIEDMAN I have to admit, it’s almost better than being with a man. It’s almost better than that. – Patti Smith, 1975 Patti Smith describes Just Kids as “our story” – hers and...
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In Which This Is The Business Al Pacino Has Chosen
Brooding & Pop-Eyed by JAMES CAMP At the start of the 70s, Al Pacino had exactly one role in a major motion picture under his belt. The movie, Me, Natalie, was small, the role minuscule: in...
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In Which Never Before Was There So Much For So Few
January 4, 1954 The following actually appeared in the first 1954 issue of Life magazine. The morning traffic and parking problem became so critical at the Carlsbad, N. Mex. high school that school...
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In Which We Chemically Enhance Bradley Cooper
Because He Got High by LAUREN BANS Limitless dir. Neil Burger 105 minutes For whatever reason someone is trying to make Bradley Cooper a leading man. Okay, not for "whatever reason", specifically for...
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In Which In Politics Artists Don't Understand Anything
Rodin's Shitheel by ALEX CARNEVALE Adolf Hitler's favorite artist was the sculptor Arno Breker, who died in Dusseldorf in 1991. The most important thing about a Nazi is the date of his death, and...
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In Which We Regularly Play Ping-Pong With The Princess Masako
Sayonara by LENA DUNHAM I awake the next morning feeling like I need a blood transfusion. Our guide Shiori arrives at noon, chipper as ever and ready to take us to the airport where we'll board the...
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In Which Three Really Is Company Not A Crowd
Basic Arithmetic by NELL BOESCHENSTEIN I first heard Trio as a seven-year-old in the backseat of my mother’s Oldsmobile station wagon. We were probably on our way to my violin lesson because in my...
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In Which James Agee Found No Single Word For What He Meant
Plans for Work: October 1937 by JAMES AGEE The following was submitted by James Agee with his application for a Guggenheim Fellowship. I am working on, or am interested to try, or expect to return to,...
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In Which We Attempt Our Return To America
The Strangeness of Coming Back by ALEXIS OKEOWO To anyone who has lived abroad for a long time, "repatriate" is a misleading word. It’s similar enough to "expatriate" that it almost seems friendly or,...
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In Which All Colleges Should Be In Tents
Snapshot of Northwood Campus. Northwood was an addition built to accommodate the surge in the student population after Allen Ginsberg declared Goddard College “the center of the universe.” Charles...
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In Which You Are Expected To Elaborate
Doorknobs and Scantrons by ELISABETH DONNELLY After I graduated college, I got anxious. Freed from the pressures of tests and books, of making sure my grades were good enough to keep my scholarship, I...
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In Which We Become Hysterical And Shaking
She Fell Ill by BARBARA GALLETLY Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt W. W. Norton & Company, 384 pp "The diagnosis of hysteria identified it as a ‘theatrical’...
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In Which Warren Beatty Is A Dirtbag For The Ages
Warren Beatty In Love by ALEX CARNEVALE If I have a fault in relation to women, it's that I'm too dependent on love. When I'm deeply involved and all is not going well, my creative impulses become...
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In Which We Consider A Rabbit Metabolism
Snickers From a Paper Bag by YVONNE GEORGINA PUIG It’s just as rude to ask a skinny person if they have an eating disorder as it is to ask an obese person if they have a thyroid problem. Few nice,...
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In Which Molls Tells You What To Do
Plz Advise by MOLLY MCALEER Plz Advise is an advice column. You can e-mail me questions about almost anything, but don’t like, take out a loan against your 401k or murder anyone based on anything I...
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In Which She's Always Been There
Dolores by DURGA CHEW-BOSE I Our potato knees match as we sit side by side on the couch, peeling clementines and watching Coronation Street. The radio is on in the kitchen and we've left the balcony...
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In Which Mildred Pierce Bids Goodbye To Sam Mendes
The Fallen by ALEX CARNEVALE Mildred Pierce dir. Todd Haynes Guy Pearce plays Monty Beragon in Todd Haynes’ HBO remake of Mildred Pierce, the first bit of extant culture that would have never existed...
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In Which We Explore The Archives Of David Foster Wallace
Holy Text by JESSE KLEIN In March 2010, the University of Texas at Austin and the Harry Ransom Center acquired David Foster Wallace’s archives and later that year made them publicly available. Since...
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