??? The waters are calmer on the other side of the island, down that hill toward all the resorts. This is the windy side, an untouched beachfront. You can see the whitecaps for miles. The waves are as violent as they are stunning though—you should know these...
Founding Editor-in-Chief Born and raised in Washington, DC, Andrew Gifford is the founder and director of the Santa Fe Writers Project and the author of the memoir We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford’s Ice Cream Empire. Managing Editor Monica Prince is the...
??? Avenged Sevenfold It’s not my kind of music, not anymore. But it fit the harsh, ringing time of my life when all I wanted was something loud enough to drown out my own mind. It fit the boy who slouched against a wall, his legs long and spread out as if to...
Pepper Girl Author: Jonterri Gadson YesYes Books, 2012 IBSN: 978-1-936919-10-9 $12.00 Sipping Espresso with Pepper Girl “To all the men I’ve loved before: // Keep the poems.” Jonterri Gadson’s Pepper Girl walks us through an understanding of the self as a woman...
Author’s Note The theocracy of modern-day Iran continuously attempts to oppress and regulate social identity, resulting in cross-sections of the pious, defiant, condemned, and invisible. The concept of sexuality navigates these boundaries in frightening and sometimes...
There is a knock at your door. You open it. Standing there is a large, luxuriously bearded, fervid-eyed author, holding a slim case of DVDs. “Have you heard the good word about Baskets?” I ask, shouldering my way into your home, toward your TV. No, I...
