I’m going to New York City for the first time next month, and my obsession with it has been in full effect since I bought my tickets. I recently found Scene, a book of Jeanette Montgomery Barron’s 80′s New York portraits. The Starn twins posed together for her, one in an undershirt with his hair pulled back and … Continue reading »
When you are a used bookstore clerk for more than four years, you pick up a few skills and insider info. Here is a list of the things I’ve learned working at Rags of Time, a used bookstore that operated in the 2000s and closed in 2011 in Moncton, New Brunswick. 10) Keeping track As … Continue reading »
“Suburban teenage shoplifters” might not seem like the most lovable of characters, but Kirsten ‘Kiwi’ Smith, author of Trinkets, is a master at creating characters you can’t help but root for. Trinkets is a novel about three completely different girls who meet in Shoplifters Anonymous; there is something in Moe that is reminiscent of Kat Stratford, … Continue reading »
I came across the New Yorker Fiction Podcast when if first kicked up in 2007. The premise is simple; a New Yorker author reads the story of another New Yorker author. And then there is discussion. That’s right, you get to listen to Jhumpa Lahiri and David Sedaris and Junot Díaz and Jonathan Franzen read … Continue reading »
A Cool Little Sister, or a CLS as I like to call them, is tough, cool, and emotionally hardened. She has to deal with living under the shadow of her perfect older sibling. Kaitlin Cooper – Mini Coop returns in Season 3 and shakes up Newport (and supplies Seth with pot). Stop for a second … Continue reading »
Art by Jasmin I always find the story. I’ll go to the store and end up talking to someone for 20 minutes about politics, love, or anything really. Then, when I finally make my way home, I’ll go through the entire sequence of causes and effects that led me to that conversation, to that moment. … Continue reading »
Collage by Kellie I’m an obsessive person. When I like something, I like it so hard that every person even remotely tangential to me or my life is affected by it. Part of this stems from my inherent desire to understand everything, to categorize and analyze and…well, sort. But you’ve read the title, so you … Continue reading »
Yunior is a sucio, a cuero, a cheater. We’re given fair warning: do not expect much in the way of morals from this man. In “The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars” – the first story in Junot Díaz’s collection This Is How You Lose Her – we see Yunior in the tailspin of a … Continue reading »
I am writing, racing really, against the clock. By clock I mean a hurricane that is currently turning west and about to break landfall and beat most of New England with winds up to seventy-five miles per hour. That kind of clock. Classes here at Berklee college of show-and-tell were cancelled, meaning I don’t have … Continue reading »
Somehow, the dawn crept up on me again, and it’s 6 o’clock. In these early hours I usually find myself deep into a season of some TV show, or on a binge of strangely specific documentaries- King of Kong, I’m looking at you. This morning however, after being up all night on the other side of … Continue reading »
