By Alan Limnis
Bernard DeVoto won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, but more importantly, he knew how to write about liquor.
Captured
By Joshua James Amberson
Google “street photographers” and you’ll notice a common thread: regardless of which sections of the population they’re known for photographing, they’re almost uniformly white. And largely men. In the top ten search results, there are only two women and one—Vivian Maier—has only become known in the past decade, years after her death. In the top forty results, there are only three people of color.
Patron Saint of Restraint
By Wendy Bourgeois
Doris Day mastered the arcane guidelines and strictures of pre-pill femininity.
It is airborne. It is spreading.
By Sarah DeYoreo
A day at work in an immigration detention center for Unaccompanied Alien Children in Portland, Oregon.
To Be Human and Get Away With It
By Rachel Greben
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow is built as a fairy tale: the daughter, Sofia Scicolone, journeys far from home to achieve her calling as Sophia Loren, but the road home is treacherous.
Venus in Rain
By Lisa Sibbett
Among all the woodenly significant short stories I was asked to read in junior high and high school, a few stand out as authentically awesome, non-wooden exceptions: a Donald Justice poem here, an excerpt from Slaughterhouse-Five there, and Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day,” which, oh my God.
When One of These Shadows Moves (Part Four)
By Tony Wolk
Part Four of Tony Wolk’s 1972 interview with James Baldwin.
Propeller Authors to Read Thursday, October 3, at Rocking Frog Cafe in Portland
By Propeller
Propeller authors Dan DeWeese and Evan P. Schneider will read with Jessie Carver at an event hosted by Perfect Day Publishing’s Michael Heald.
Calling God Into Account
By Emily Burns Morgan
Gay and black and writing in the 1950s, Baldwin had plenty to be angry about. One could hardly blame him for sliding into moralizing. But, in the fiction, he does not.
When One of These Shadows Moves (Part Three)
By Tony Wolk
Part Three of Tony Wolk’s 1972 interview with James Baldwin.
Ralph Ellison
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Ralph Ellison.
James Herndon
By Tony Wolk
Notes on James Herndon.
When One of These Shadows Moves (Part Two)
By Tony Wolk
Part Two of Tony Wolk’s 1972 interview with James Baldwin.
When One of These Shadows Moves (Part One)
By Tony Wolk
In 1972, Tony Wolk met James Baldwin in London for an interview. Their conversation was recorded but never published. Wolk recently rediscovered the recording, which we now share here for the first time, forty-seven years later, with additional notes and remembrances by Wolk.
Richard Wright
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Richard Wright.
Sonia Sanchez
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Sonia Sanchez.
George Jackson
By Tony Wolk
Notes on George Jackson.
H. Rap Brown
By Tony Wolk
Notes on H. Rap Brown.
Frantz Fanon
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Frantz Fanon.
Angela Davis
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Angela Davis.