This summer, Jonathan Sawday, an Englishman living in St. Louis, MO, decided to attend a party in San Francisco. He chose to drive there (and back) on his own. Here’s how the trip panned out.
Kerouacking: A Failed Project in Four Movements – Jamey Gallagher
Jamey Gallagher revisits Jack Kerouac anew.
The Non-Apotheosis of Tom Paine – Ed Simon
Tom Paine however didn’t believe in gods, and so he was just a man, sometimes a flawed one, and because of that he deserves our love.
Master of Atlantis: Charles Portis, the South’s Salinger? – Trevor Seigler
Trevor Seigler searches for Charlis Portis, “True Grit” author and the “Southern Salinger.”
“No more [green] than any other city” – Zoya Brumberg
Zoya Brumberg discovers Chicago, Oz, and everywhere in between.
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.
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