Month: February 2016
Keeping Quiet
Photography is an essentially ambivalent medium for we can never be sure of the authenticity of what is being shown.
The Identities I Wear
"I intentionally dress up to erase the label I owned yesterday. Today, I’m a circus ringmaster; yesterday, a disco girl; the day before, an air-force-pilot-meets-janitor."
Meeting in Boston
"This was before he was my grandfather, before he was Papa. Before his visit to a new country defined his family’s future. Americanness was only a hope."
Open Call for Submissions to Commuter Lit
Public Books is looking for writing from students who commute.
Food Stars
"'Food porn' describes an obsession with all things food, and the term has saturated the vocabulary of Americans like golden butter on thick toast."
Rolled Cabbage to Osceola
"These recipes [in my family cookbook]are a far cry both from how I understand Jewish, and how I understand Southern."
February 25 | Gallatin Teachers Reading featuring Bella Mirabella, Matthew Stanley, and Jack Tchen with Dylan Yeats
Gallatin professors read from recently published books.
Don’t Look Back
“My mother is gifted with forgetfulness. She calls it a gift, anyway. It is a unique ability to simply forget the bad stuff.”