The narrator finally became engaged enough in the story to travel to meet with JB McLamore in the backwards Alabama town. I was curious with him and engaged from the outset. John gave details to substantiate his claims of the…
A Self Portrait Photo Essay on Film for Social Media: Self-Reflections, Distortions and Double Exposure
My social media instagram is comprised of rolleiflex photo essays, here is an outline for an essay of five with images of my self that are centered around the main themes of my memoir- Meeting my father, my cancer diagnosis…
Pictures for Instagram – Idea – “The road to hell is filled with good intentions”
I thought you all might get a kick out of this!
Scent and Sensitivity: Writing Women from their Archives – Victoria Phillips
Shit Town
I apologize for getting this in late… During our last class, someone mentioned that they loved this podcast, so immediately I was very intrigued and excited to start listening. I listen to podcasts a lot. But I keep being stuck…
Letter to a peer
Dear K, Please know that I care about you, your life, and our friendship. The memories we’ve shared are some of the most meaningful in my life. You really were like a sister to me during my turbulent teenage years.…
Shittown Response
I first listened to this podcast in 2017. I remember being completely swept up in the story, shocked by the end of Episode 2, and enamored with the storytelling. For me, it still holds up. I felt all the same…
A Letter to a Peer – Variations on “Down”
Dear A, Somehow when the millennium hit, things went downhill. I found myself on the hood of the car with my pants down again. Down like I was when I knelt down by the hole in the wooden wall… face…
Pitch: The IDF and Zelensky’s Militant Jewish Masculinity and the Radical Alternatives offered by ACT UP Era Klezmer, Activists, and Diaspora Poetics
This is not quite a letter to an agent, it’s a pitch for a longish essay on the Klezmer Revival, its connection to the East Village cultural and political life of the 80s and 90s and Jewish-American identity, masculinity and…
Letter to a peer
Dear Alison, The last big project I wrote you on was the year after I graduated, it was something about an unbreaking, a healing but not healing. Definitely a piece about forgiveness. I can’t remember if I sent you something…
