Given the chance to thank the people who changed their lives, several prominent writers made the decision to write their hearts out and let us in on stories they have carried around for years.
Kevin Smokler | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Never mind TST would watch Lynn Freed read the back of a soup can. Give her 10 minutes and she'd have that soup can speaking Dutch and flirting with a bag of soda crackers. Simply one of the classiest acts in contemporary literature. Makes you feel smarter just hanging around.
Jamil Zaki | Posted 06.17.2009 | Media
The "CNN effect" describes how, by airing images of suffering, news outlets can create enormous pressure for governments to intervene, fueled by public outcry over the suffering of others.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment
To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.
Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.07.2008 | Living
"I Am Astro Place" I wrote in the 1980s as a screenplay, "Astro Place," about some cultural and political people living near Astor Place in the East Village in the fraught years 1984 to 2001.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 06.07.2008 | Media
The naked woman was on her back, cupping a breast in each hand, with her legs crossed and bent at the knees. Next to her was an iced bucket of twinkling long neck beers grazing her thigh.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books