“Zeus, Hera, and…” I paused and glanced at my glass of red wine, “Dionysus.” We were playing a […]
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.
“This is not a joke.” So said Jordan Horowitz, producer of La La Land, amid the minor chaos […]
For a while in the mid-1970s, my most reliable companion was a round yellow Panasonic Toot-a-Loop “bracelet” radio. […]
Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without […]
There’s something excessively sad about the new episodes of Gilmore Girls. The central characters, particularly Lorelai and Rory, […]
For most summers in my life I’ve worked at my parents’ gift store on Martha’s Vineyard. The store […]
As an eleven-year old-girl growing up in the 1980s, I was sure I was some variety of previously […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers often use LGBT characters to make well-worn storylines feel contemporary. […]