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Who Left the Big Turd?

I’ll bet you it was his sister, Amy. Here’s my theory: In one of his stories, Sedaris specifically recalls how he… Read full post »

The theme of the 50^th issue of Tin House is beauty, so it is only fitting that on the magazine's cover would stand Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, on a clam shell, in a clear homage to Sandra Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. The prose in… Read full post »

“Mine ain’t the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that has its fingers wrapped around my throat.”

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz

Part I: Black… Read full post »

Part I: Sex and Fatherhood

Ramen Noodles

       I first discovered my step-dad’s Hustler magazines when I was ten. My mother wasn’t home, he was. It must have been the early afternoon, because he just offered to make me lunch—ramen noodles. He cooked/… Read full post »

Part I: Growing Pains

It’s the last day of school. Jack—a graduating senior—runs down the Liberal Art Building hallway, stopping at room 314, his Creative Writing professor’s office. He knocks on the door, hunching over, dropping both hands to his knees, gasping for air.

Th… Read full post »

Part I: The Halloween Party

Jessica

I first saw Jessica’s face about a month ago on the internet. You see, I belong to an internet group called “The Twenties and Thirties Something Young Professional Social Group.” I know, I know, it sounds lame. I can hear your condescending laug… Read full post »