Overly outgoing female seeks to mend missed connection with fellow headphone user. We met on the elevator, in the building we both reside in. I will not disclose the address, as I would hope we […]
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That Was My Stomach I Swear!
Your stomach is too loud. It growls during class. It rumbles on your way to work. Sometimes it keeps you up at night. With your thin bank balance making you thinner, you learn to get […]
New School Book Community Round Up
The New School’s Creative Writing courses have inspired a wealth of published material, including several recent releases. Professor Susan Shapiro’s smart new book, The Byline Bible (Writer’s Digest Books) was directly inspired by her popular […]
UNDERGRAD LIT JOURNAL SEEKING HANDS-OFF SUGAR DADDY
Buzzing fishbowl of starving artists seeks independently wealthy male (or any person, et al. who identifies as a “Sugar Daddy”) to fund our undergraduate literary journal, 12th Street, a serious, professional, funny, and sometimes scary […]
Stay in Your (Bike) Lane
In the New York City transportation system, bike accidents are considered especially unimportant. The dedicated walkers who roam the streets and nearly get killed by cyclists have not responded to my ad on Craigslist, so […]
Food Writing: Not a Niche Interest Anymore
It’s a dismal, rainy evening, but Ruth Reichl has a crowd of soggy New Yorkers in stitches. The iconic food critic and former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine is telling the story of her attempt to review a […]
Brooklyn’s New Home for Filmmakers
In a small riverside park in Greenpoint, there is a mural of a girl lying on a blanket, pulling petals from a handful of daisies. The mural is maybe twenty feet high and covers the […]
Leaving Something Good Behind
Anthony Bourdain was the consummate New Yorker: brash, visceral, enigmatic and unapologetic; an unabashed lover of the bizarre and unusual, he was charming and affable, cocky and unruly—a marauding, take-no-prisoners street romantic. On an episode […]
How to Survive a Nine to Five
Sometimes it may seem like there aren’t enough hours in the day, especially when you hate your job and have way too many goals to accomplish. When working a 9-5, you might feel like those […]
Finding a New Way
Next to a gas station on Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, a large building covered in colorful murals awaits a premature vacancy. The Silent Barn Collective, a DIY music venue and collaborative living and art […]