topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In February 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered to share perspectives on “Love and Heartbreak.” Stories included “On First Kisses” by Nick Schonberger, “John Held Margot Close” by Will Carlough, “Let’s Wear Burlap Sacks Forever” by Stephanie Hodges, “Lunch Break” by Mary Kate Burke, “Revisions of a Letter […]

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In May 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered in NYC to share perspectives on “Crime and Punishment.” Stories included Toby Miller’s “Night Point.”  

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT Mexican busboys scamper around placating women with French manicures, tattoos and fake tits. The juxtaposition is beyond comprehension and, therefore somehow works. BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rovers come and go as the valets try and look cool in the 88 degree September sun. I want and write […]

Enjoy some photos from our Making Ends Meet event in New York City.

as submitted for the “Monogamy” Open Call We got home and discussed monogamy. I asked if we were. She said I think so. I told her I hadn’t been with anybody else since we started. She said neither had she. I thought I felt love but couldn’t be sure. I […]

Fred Gutzeit did his share of traveling before he finally settled in New York like he always wanted to. Living in the Lower East and watching it change over the years helped Fred share some great stories with us! Can you imagine a time when rents were $54 a month […]

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Imagine starting your life in one place. And pretty much staying there for the rest of it. You think it’d be boring? Think again. Laurie may have been born on the Upper East Side, but she’s a Lower East Side “Lifer”! And she lives among other such “Lifers”! And boy, […]

You never know what in or about a home connects you to important people in it. Sharing a room with a sibling, building some furniture together with your father. It could be anything. For Colin Deschamps, it’s about house bells and a very funny story of how it brought him […]