The Third Rail
…agents), evaluation (by editors), purchase (by publishers), production, publication, publicization, and second evaluation (by reviewers) and purchase (by readers) of NYC novels,” and this is true, but in Vermont, there…
…agents), evaluation (by editors), purchase (by publishers), production, publication, publicization, and second evaluation (by reviewers) and purchase (by readers) of NYC novels,” and this is true, but in Vermont, there…
…one is challenged to explore the subjective territory and insights of one’s own mind—an individualistic, peculiarly American, and definitively non-Communist ideal. By the late nineteen eighties and early nineties, Congress…
…between native and white. Coins were scarce at the height of war, and each month Raghavan sent his assistant to purchase containers of the plastic bus tokens that conductors accepted…
…which is like 100 years in internet time, I found a ready-to-go eulogy to buy within about twenty seconds. Guernica: You actually made a purchase on eulogies.com, or wherever it…
…jobs in the U.S., most people assumed he was talking about net exports—that is, exports minus imports. A doubling of net exports would help fill the demand gap caused by…
…toast and turkey bacon, on plates and in bowls that are thick and cream-colored, like old-fashioned crockery. Her parents are quiet people, not festive, with impeccable taste. They appreciate things…
…millennium dreaming that she’s also a young woman in England in 1593, namely Amelia Bassano, long-reputed Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Kate, the young dreamer, suffers visions of a looming…
https://www.guernicamag.com/sandra-newman-we-need-to-reclaim-utopianism/
…better and watching Jodzio’s characters as they stretch their arms outward is a real pleasure. Ben and Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream. You have Ben and Jerry’s thick, creamy ice…
…has a fit by the ice cream stand, which is out of the particular type of ice cream he wanted, and I suddenly put my hands over my ears to…
…look at my sunken stomach, my breasts too small for even a training bra. In the two-story house where my dad sleeps on the couch, the bathroom is cream tile…
…without once mentioning the pink tubes of Fashion Fair Cream on their vanities. For whatever reason, the bleaching lotions struggled to penetrate the skin at the knuckles, elbows, and knees….
…whipping cream, two tablespoons of moonshine, and two tablespoons of sugar, whisked together in a chilled metal bowl. After five minutes, I had my own spiked whipped cream—perfect with coffee,…
…screamed with laughter. Children played football, newborn babies on double-folded quilts waved at the sky, students clinked plastic champagne glasses, and a couple made out under the weeping willow. The…
…distill the flavor of whole dishes (rice pudding, apple cobbler). He can make a cream flavor (that smells like a fruit drink) or a whipped cream flavor (that smells like…
…Lynch 1. There is a foreign body in my ear. The doctor wrote it in his diagnosis, like this, in capital letters: FOREIGN BODY EAR He prescribed antibiotic cream and…
…was murmuring a lustful language into her neck, clutching the side of her mosquito net tighter and tighter as he moved. In the blue wet of night, they were naked…
…Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P five hudnred biggest corporations are now doing more than sixty percent of their business abroad. And America’s biggest investors are also…
…to the lures and snares of Net fundamentalism. I’ve witnessed at least three waves of Internet boom-and-bust publishing cycles since I got into this business. As the prophets at Suck.com…
https://www.guernicamag.com/roger-d-hodge-the-personality-of-a-magazine/
…legless beggar on Dorival Caymmi. Instead my gaze flitted to the boys practicing capoeira on the beach by the highway–their graceful kicks and feints. I had to remind myself that…
…Company building peered “the hungry eyes of some starving child.” In 1895, one could purchase a ten dollar life insurance policy for a one-year-old child or a thirty-three dollar policy…