What happened to you on October 23, 1998? My mother, Beverly June, and I left our three bedroom […]
Category Archive: Popular Fictions
But not just fictions—or maybe, fictions in the most expansive sense, including music, television, film, art, etc. Write here if: something is happening in the popular landscape that tells a story to you.
Lizzie has a clear message for us: we ought to care more about Lizzie Borden, whether or not […]
“This is [bleeping] drama,” laments Bachelor In Paradise contestant Clare Crawley as she leans over the balcony of […]
In Honolulu — the underdog karaoke champion of the world — there is no hour that someone on the island is not […]
When I have been very good, my four-year-old son will sometimes suggest that we add one of my […]
“Heroes die,” Jessica Jones says in season two of the eponymous Marvel show. Super-powered but not a superhero, […]
In the fifth-century BC, in southern Italy, there lived a philosopher called Parmenides, who believed that ontological pluralism—the […]
Here’s how it should’ve gone. I watch Martin Scorsese’s 1993 adaptation of The Age of Innocence as a culture-starved […]