Best Weekend: Patti Smith’s ‘M Train,’ New Music from Tori Amos, + More
We’re going to pull up an armchair, raise a glass of hot tea, and toast to the fall with a slew of great reads, good music, titillating TV, and one self-referential horror movie. ‘M Train’ by Patti...
View ArticleBest Weekend: Carrie Brownstein’s Memoir, Witch Movie Marathon + More
Grab that candy bowl, we’ve got everything you need to get the most out of this ghoulish weekend. Witch Movie Marathon In reality, witches were just some very powerful ladies that made the (white...
View ArticleBest Weekend: ‘Getting On,” Gloria Steinem, Lalah Hathaway + More
I can see 2016 from my house! How is it that right after Halloween, January feels like it’s a little too close for comfort (despite the unseasonably warm temperatures in cities like New York and...
View ArticleThe Day I Knew I’d Finally Confront My Rapist
In 1992, college student Emily Winslow was raped off-campus by a stranger. In 2013, the man was identified by a DNA match in the FBI’s CODIS database of criminal DNA. This excerpt from Emily’s memoir...
View ArticleDrinking: A Success Story!
I wanted to try alcohol again. I wasn’t a kid anymore taking baby sips of my uncle’s beer; I was 13 years old and ready to party my training-bra tits off. It was the summer of ’89, and I was with my...
View ArticleThere’s No Eating at the Morgue
“Can you still take me to the morgue?” I asked John Zambos, a homicide detective from one of Los Angeles’s most crime-ridden areas. A few years earlier I befriended Zambos, who has since retired from...
View ArticleSimone Biles’s Story Reminds Us How Little We Understand About Adoption
It began, as so many conversations with my siblings do, with a group text message. My sister Lisa sent a link: “Little Girl Abandoned by Father and Drug-Addict Mother Is Adopted by Christian Texas...
View Article“Whatever She’s Making, I Don’t Want Any”
Your parents speak in tongues, my mother says to my father, as we pull into an empty parking space in front of my grandparents’ building. It’s a late Sunday morning in December 1974; I am 11. And like...
View ArticleLiving in the Moment Is Overrated
The first thing you learn about people who live in the moment is that they live in the moment. Because when it comes to the moment, either you’re in or you’re out. I’d like to live in the moment but I...
View ArticleThe Sex Education of Gen X’s Most Revolutionary Sex Educator
I went on my first real date in sixth grade, with a boy in my class named Mike Jupiter. He was smart and funny and came to pick me up at my house. I wore my favorite jeans and a blue Members Only...
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