In honor of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, we asked Entropy writers to share with us one of the first poems they ever read that got them excited…
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Princeton Prison Experiment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Princeton Prison Experiment was a study that sought to measure the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted…
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Last week, I saw the Yeti. Facebook feeds were alive with news of the sightings. I clicked link after link until I landed on a blurry video allegedly shot by…
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I awoke with thoughts of escarole in my mind. Or, more precisely, Escarole in Brodo, a simple Italian soup made from chicken stock and escarole, which I had eaten many…
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The storm hit land in North Carolina on Thursday afternoon and traveled in a northwesterly direction. We in the Washington, DC area did not bear its brunt. Damage was less…
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Before the children, back when I was gainfully employed, cooking was something of a rich man’s hobby for me. I worked at a DC-area consulting firm racking up billable hours…
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The makers of GMO Bunny know of your longings for peace and harmony within your broken household. You, my dear single and/or divorced mother, have three children whom you affectionately…
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Consider the standard rape narrative in television and film. A young-ish woman, alone at night. She’s walking to her car in a dimly-lit parking lot. Or she’s returning home through…
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They were responsible for, perhaps, my proudest moment as a writer. In 2009, fresh after completing my MFA at Virginia Tech, I was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for work on…
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News Item: Land Rover, the British automobile concern, commissions noted author William Boyd to produce a 18,000 word novella prominently featuring its vehicles. I turned on the [Brand Name withheld…