Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Maybaybutter/Getty Images Plus and Jem Cohen. In 2021 the writer then known as Luc Sante—author of the classic 1991 urban history Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York —sent an email to a group of friends and colleagues. In it, she explained that she was in fact […]
Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins EILEEN VORBACH COLLINS’S new memoir-in-essays, Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of Stories About Suicide Loss , is about the liminal space of parental grief and the big questions that inevitably follow: What happened to that which animated my […]
Without repetition, there is no music. Entire genres—trap; bachata—rely on reworking characteristic instrumentations, rhythms, and beats, beats that are themselves the stuff of repetition. Blues has its signature chord progressions. Disco and its danceable descendants lean into the power of synthesized loops. Harsh or ambient, noise music confidently gazes in on and repeats itself. Themes, […]
Stepping into The Ripped Bodice is like a fairytale come to life, but it’s also a missed opportunity for a writer’s paradise. Illustration by Clara Waldheim Welcome to Writes & Bites — a series where Creative Writing MFA student Arianna Gundlach periodically reviews a place in New York City you could write at and tackles […]
