topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Night had fallen on Jersey City by the time my brother and I arrived. We’d driven the seventy miles from northwestern New Jersey, finding ourselves in a city where water utility workers were pressed into service directing traffic while […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call check out Alan’s website! Where was I on Sept 11? How about where wasn’t I? I was not by a typewriter. I was also not someone who claimed, but then stopped. Deserted for convenience. I was also not anywhere […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Yesterday was September 11th. I know I was supposed to feel something but all I could think about was how fucked up the world was. It didn’t used to be like this. But it is now. Not to say […]
Protesters continue to gather in NYC to decry an expanding set of economic injustices, but we can’t all set up camp outside the site of our personal grievances. From the vending machine that won’t relinquish your candy to international policy, we want to understand how you feel about things no […]
Aah, 17. What an age that was. Not that I did anything as thrilling as running away to a corner of Chile to see a religious festival or even going to Chile in the first place. But you get to hear how Alex Power did both in today’s (October 20) […]
topic: HOME medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Home Sweet Home” Event My family used to go on holiday to a farm house every year, for two weeks in the rural Portugal. The sea was not far away, you could smell it in the otherwise sun scorched air. My siblings […]
I grew up on Enid Blyton’s charming stories of well-behaved dogs and the placid sheep they shepherded. So listening to Tommy Walach’s story on Travel in today’s (October 17) selection makes me wonder if Enid Blyton had ever been to Ireland (or New Zealand. Watch the video, you’ll know what […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “TO CONNECT”: KL Frank imagines the gray inner life of an office drone who tunes out of the humans around him by day, and tunes into the avatars of Second Life at […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, said of “brb g2g do stufs irl”: Quick peek into the mind of a rebellious 22-year old cyborg-cybergirl—that is, a woman who can’t stand being offline. When Anne’s mom sends her out on a date, Anne “missed […]