In this Baton Rouge district, some of the houses had no doorbells. Sometimes, the doorbells were taped over with blue masking or black electrical tape.
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Our weed shop is located beside the local hospital. One might think that would be a good match since cannabis products promote health and healing too, but you can’t have ...
While searching for a fitting christmas gift for a young girl, a woman is reminded of her experiences growing up in the southern states of America.
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A man stands out in the cold, hoping to spread the word of Jesus to passers-by.
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My grandfather and his best friend made the trip to the coast to find that the only work to be had was picking fruit for ten cents an hour.
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Most of us have gazed at the face of the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph or lingered over the beds, towels, and chairs in houses belonging to tenant ...
Trees, by Anthony Doerr, was first published in Litro Magazine: Jul 2012.
He stops at the supply room window, a floor-to-ceiling sheet of glass, double-paned, six feet wide. The best ...
Her mother did nothing but shake her head as he’d then barricade her inside that dark tomb for hours.
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Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails .
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This masterful follow-up to 2011’s Exit Through The Wound flits through San Francisco and Los Angeles in a savage satire of the ultra-rich and ultra-bored.
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Teju Cole’s latest novel explores one man’s conflicted sense of home and belonging through the psychogeography of Lagos.
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“Maximo had asked me whether I could serve—not everyone can, he added… Through it all, the figures in the Help Wanted ad from the Dallas Morning News beamed at me ...
“The palm tree leaves quivered dryly two stories above the promenade. A couple young girls rolled past in pink and red, skin yellowish in the humid air. Not a glimmer ...
Three years in Fayetteville, and all that came with it.
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Claire Rodwell explores the broken family unit within Wiley Cash’s This Dark Road to Mercy and the unconventional influence this has on Easter and Ruby’s perception of familial roles.
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Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie were figureheads of late twentieth-century literary London – the last great era of British fiction. So what happened when the three of them ...
Last year, a new shopping centre opened on the outskirts of London. There’s something for everyone: expensive shit, cheap shit, mid-priced shit, all laid out in a sort of class ...
This blog series has been about my discovery of UK culture, but this particular article is inspired by a recent trip home to the States – a trip that showed ...
Stand-up comedian John Bishop
Accents fascinate me. I’m guilty of half-listening to people, half trying to figure out their accent. If we watch John Bishop’s stand-up routines, my husband has to ...
One. I’m in a yellow highchair, the same color as the sculpted carpet. In front of me is a cake, frosted to look like flower petals. I don’t yet understand ...
