Two Stadiums
Photo by Hedia Maron The printed version of this story is in the new issue of Kiosk Paper, available to pick up for free at Kiosk, 95 Spring Street at Broadway in SoHo. About a ten-minute walk from my...
View ArticleScenes and Metaphors from Can Serrat
Cami El Font Bram, who first introduced himself to me as “practically five” and then turned five last week, was telling me about the Cami El Font, just down the road from the residency, a shrine to the...
View ArticleNew York Is Oakland
(This story was published on Mr Beller’s Neighborhood on September 8, 2012). Two days after the Occupy Oakland police raid, where an Iraq War vet was shot in the head with a police projectile and...
View ArticleWe Never Liked Her
I am in Latvia, in my grandparents’ car, which somehow smells just like their car in the States: a combination of Old Spice, cigarettes and Russian bologna. It’s the third day of my trip to this...
View ArticleAlice B. Toklas (1877-1967): Gertrude Stein’s lover
Occupying that special invisible area historically reserved for homosexual partnerships, Gertrude Stein’s relationship with her “companion,” Alice Babette Toklas, was never entirely out in the open,...
View ArticleA Letter to the Russian Language
This story was originally published in July 2013 on Ducts.org: All old people remind me of my dead grandparents, and especially old Eastern Europeans. So when we knock on the door at 2A, and the...
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