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In Which We Always Retain The Image Of Ourselves As An Outsider
Manhattan in Middle Age by ELIZABETH GUMPORT New York is a city that looks better from a distance. The gap can be temporal – the poverty of youth becomes, in time, one’s golden freedom – or spatial. A...
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In Which He Did Not Try To Touch Me Again After That
First Sign Of Dawn by JOSIANE CURTIS I was in 4th grade the first time I remember being told by a man to smile. I was out to dinner with my mother and friends of hers, and I was in a bad mood because...
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In Which We Romance A Eunuch Of Our Very Own
Mad at Ya by DICK CHENEY You know what's super kewt about a Wildling army on the march? They have their own hotelier, the best in the business. Every day you wake up in the Wildling army you have a...
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In Which It Is Easy To Forget They Share Your Own Blood
Orejas de Elefante by MAUREEN O'BRIEN A storyteller relies on deception, depends on the secrets of his characters and coddles their depth, their small lies and their great fears. It is easy to forget...
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In Which This Is Very Tough To Communicate
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which They Shot The Albatross
Oddball by CAMILLA PEFFER A common theme weaves itself through the vocabulary of music critics who try to describe singer and songwriter Fiona Apple. In over two decades of interviews, reviews, and...
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In Which Too Much Performance Remains Exhausting
Of My Own Accord by BRITTANY JULIOUS I In my parents’ home in the suburbs, after a stranger held me down and sexually assaulted me on the train, leaving a literal trail of his destruction on my black...
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In Which We Hide In A Freezer During A Wildling Skirmish
I'm Really Starting to Hate the Wall by DICK CHENEY Lynne and I were once Thronesing in Bretagne with two of her friends, a couple. They loved Lynne and only tolerated me, so she insisted I drop some...
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In Which They Can Slice Through A Stale Baguette
Angelina Jolie's Face by MIA NGUYEN Maleficent dir. Robert Stromberg 97 minutes Angelina Jolie's cheekbones should be placed in the second slot of the rolling credits when Maleficent is digitally...
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In Which We Dared Not Disturb Her
Backseat by TAYLOR HINE When I initially began to think about my relationship to Cat Power’s music, and where it started, I determined that it was with an album review (of her second covers record,...
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In Which We Think It Is Important To Get This Across
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which We Return To The Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
A London Particular by JESSICA FURSETH I know what it’s like to live in a place where nothing ever happens, and West London is nothing like that. I know what it’s like to live in a place where you...
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In Which This Was Before We Knew We Should Hate Kerouac
Three Times a Permit by KARA VANDERBIJL I have two party tricks: the first is that after two glasses of wine I fall asleep in the middle of the floor or on the couch during a conversation. The second...
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In Which Our Dragons Have The Run Of The Facility
Ser Kevan Will Save Us by DICK CHENEY In the histories Herodotus describes a rarity: an Egyptian king not born into the nobility. Amasis was a drunk and a thief before he became king. He would wander,...
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In Which We Miss Several Hundred Others
Writing Back by AMANDA OLIVER Your life is not what you thought it would be. You thought by now you would have a best-selling book or a house or at least a baby. When did you first think these things?...
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In Which We Find This Impossible To Make You Understand
Hard to Say is This Recording’s weekly advice column. It will appear every Wednesday until the Earth perishes in a fiery blaze, or until North West turns 40. Get no-nonsense answers to all of your...
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In Which Things Take A Weary And Bitter Turn For Mary MacLane
Life As It Affected Mary MacLane by CATHERINE ENGH Nineteen-year-old Mary MacLane from Butte, Montana tells her reader almost immediately in her 1902 “portrayal” that she is a descendant, through her...
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In Which It's A Metaphor You Potato With Eyes
Pied Piper by KARA VANDERBIJL Orange is the New Blackcreator Jeniji Kohan Orange is the New Black's wildly popular first season saw Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) sentenced to 15 months in federal...
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In Which Cersei Plans To Eliminate This Other Woman
Do You Want To Meet My Dad? He's Disgusting by DICK CHENEY The Other Woman dir. Nick Cassavetes 109 minutes It is a popular and sexist myth that female friendships are more deepening and anechoic than...
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In Which Malcolm Lowry Despised New York
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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