(Image credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation) If you flicked on MTV over the summer of 1991, you’d probably have been faced with the surreal sight of Axl Rose staring down the shotgun of a cyborg in sunglasses. By this point, there was a list of people who might have considered terminating the mercurial […]
In “ Life with Spider ,” your story in this week’s issue, a young man named Fletcher encounters a creature with six legs, jet-black skin, and no eyes, ears, or mouth. This is Spider, and Fletcher finds that Spider is everywhere he is, in increasingly menacing and forward ways. But Fletcher is less surprised than […]
New York City’s history is full of doppelgängers, look-alikes, and repetitions. Is there any experience as universal as moving here from a small town, working a crappy job, and spending half your keep to rent a shoebox apartment that you share with a roommate? Take, for instance, the story of a waiter named Joseph Moore. […]
To reach his books, my father had to exit our home, down the small one-step cement porch, under the mulberry tree that left purple splotches on our dirt driveway, and walk to the side of our house that was three different colors from all the peeling paint, everything chipped anemic blues and grays. There, behind […]
Adrienne Su is an author and professor of creative writing at Dickinson College. She wrote “Living Quarters,” the FOX43 Book Club’s January read. CARLISLE, Pa. — They say to teach what you know—a message author Adrienne Su takes to heart. When she’s not in the classroom, Su can be found working on her collections of […]
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