Readings Archives

From “Water Images of The New Yorker,” by Charles Bernstein. Bernstein’s study was distributed to participants at a poetry seminar held in June at the Kootenay School of Writing in…

Why was Flight 655 shot down?

by David R. (David Richard) Carlson,

White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

by Patrick Nagatani,

The heavy hand of the NRA

by James H. Warner,

Journalism in our time

by Bill Walter,

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Art by Gene Elder,

Mapping the real geography

by Barry Lopez,

On the wing

by Kjell Bloch Sandved,

Dr. Ordinary

by Padgett Powell,

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Drawn by Nick Downes,

Lives of the body

by Sallie Tisdale,

Bless this game

by Harper’s Staff,

Baseball suicides

by Bill Deane, Richard D. Topp,

Desecrating America (part II)

by Richard Durbin,

De-Stalinizing the Soviet past

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel,

Sex, drugs, rock & roll

Art by Robbie Conal,

A brief history of the Reagan years

by Paul Slansky,

Howls

by John W. Hart,

The Art of the Insult

by Donald Trump,

Filet of food critic

by Harper’s Staff,

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by Gloria DeFilipps Brush,

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Barbara Walters’s theater of revenge

Writer’s grudge

My white father

Relax, breathe, visualize, dump her

(Very) Fast Food

Rosemary Jamison’s truck

Vulgar recipes

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Funk and fibers

Wet Verse at The New Yorker

Why was Flight 655 shot down?

White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

The heavy hand of the NRA

Journalism in our time

Readings

Mapping the real geography

On the wing

Dr. Ordinary

Readings

Lives of the body

Bless this game

Baseball suicides

Desecrating America (part II)

De-Stalinizing the Soviet past

Sex, drugs, rock & roll

A brief history of the Reagan years

Howls

The Art of the Insult

Filet of food critic

Readings

November 1989

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