When Stalin collectivized Russian peasant agriculture, goods disappeared from the stores. The rationing system devised for bread and other items lead to the infamous bread lines of the Soviet bloc. …
New York City
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When the stove in my Brooklyn apartment started to leak gas last year, the gas company sent a technician, a burly man with a sunburned scalp, who told me that…
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Image Credit: Touann Gatouillat Vergos Money is the opposite of magic. Art is magic. The worlds of art and money are constantly intermingling. To survive this mixture the magic in…
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NICK EARHART lives in Pasadena, California, near Allendale Park. He is writing a dissertation on art, infrastructure, and urban space, and he also likes to draw and play guitar.…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
My Grandfather Survived the 1918 Pandemic, Only To Be Bitten by the African Tse-Tse Fly
by Guest Contributor May 1, 2020“Don’t move.” From the passenger seat behind me, Bryan grabbed my headrest and pulled himself up. “That is one big bug,” he said with excess enthusiasm. “Where?” I whispered. “On top…
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When my parents drove me from Dallas to New York City for college, we hid one of Dad’s handguns in the compartment under my feet in the back seat. I…
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ND/SA publishes new poetry chapbook manuscripts by emerging, diverse New York City writers. We are generally excited by a unified text with a strong sense of voice and purpose and a startling use of beautiful, difficult language.
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Transitory Poetics is a monthly review series by Toby Altman focused solely on current and upcoming chapbooks. You can read the introduction here. This month, I reviewed two chapbooks by poets who work in New…
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This is the thirty-sixth in Entropy’s small press interview series, where we ask editors about their origins, their mission, and what it’s like to run a press. Find the other interviews from…
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LiteratureReview
I am having what you might call a hard time: on Be A Dead Girl
by Alexis Pope March 9, 2015Be A Dead Girl by Krystal Languell Argos Books, 2014 Argos Books dd Yeah, I’m sitting here on Washington Ave with this yogurt & this cappuccino. And, yeah, I put…
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*New York cityscape images are courtesy of Charlotte Popper Dear Joan, I read Goodbye to All That a couple of days after I had moved down to Stuyvesant Town from…