Tag: Subway
Lauren A. White: How To Be The Black Person Reading How To Be Black
March 2013Reading Baratunde Thurston’s satirical memoir on public transportation turns into a social experiment.
Erika Anderson: On the Tracks
December 2012Ki-Suck Han’s death on a New York City subway track has the city asking what would I do? One writer examines death in public, how the MTA handles trauma, and what it feels like to be an onlooker.
Stippling
May 2012Still, I started for the parlor. I’d polished my shoes, put gel in my hair: habits my mother had always wanted me to form and I had always resisted. Walking down the street, I felt conspicuous, as though people were sniggering at my gleaming head and feet.
