Zoya Brumberg discovers Chicago, Oz, and everywhere in between.
Author: Ed Simon
Poems by A.j. Binash
A.j. Binash’s American Post-Post-Modernism.
Gettysburg is my Jersey Shore – Ashley Pfeiffer
Some people went down the shore in the summer, Ashley Pfeiffer went to Gettysburg.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God – Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards thinks God doesn’t like you very much.
A Misunderstood Symbol – Jacob Ian
Over the decades since August 16th, 1977, our culture has rendered him nearly flattened, completely one dimensional, neatened into a nice little pile of quaint references and one-liners.
No Stillness After Appomattox – Reid Mitchell
I remember reading as a southern boy—a white southern boy—how Grant actually never took Richmond. Technically, this is true, if irrelevant.
Modern Times (1936): Heralding the Return, After an Undue Absence, of Charlie Chaplin in ‘Modern Times.’ – Frank Nugent
Charlie Chaplin is at it again!
A Drink with the “Professor” – Wade Linebaugh
The cocktail is a distinctly American phenomenon, and while it’s hard to mess up cold booze in a glass on a hot day, there are still measures of greater and lesser in the annals of our gin-swilling history.
The Game of Base Ball, How to Learn It, How to Play It – Henry Chadwick
The master of baseball writing remembers some games of his youth.
“Get a Brain! Morans”: The Meta-Discourse of Misspelled Tea Party Signs – Arlynda Boyer
Remember Descent the Highest form of Patriotic….
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