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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Left-Handed Work: A Theory For Women

(perhaps for some men, too)

so i have been working these past two weeks, mulling and toiling and essaying and travailing, over what is now a large sheaf of rough draft garbage, complete and total crap. love’s labour lost.

By Pat Ellis Taylor October 1985
Readers Write

A Simpler Life

Wrapping things up, being a post-menopausal woman, seeing the northern lights

By Our Readers August 1985
Fiction

News From El Corizon

In The Composing Room

Well you tell your mom you can sleep on the floor here tonight, I tell her, if nothing else turns up. And I’m thinking that blankets thrown down for them on a bare floor in the apartment of strangers isn’t much to offer, they will have to be pretty desperate to accept an offer like that.

By Pat Ellis Taylor March 1983
Photography

The Gabriel Books

Life

“The Gabriel Books” are a series of small cartoon books.

By Natalia d’Arbeloff November 1982
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Sparrow In New York

“We’re asking people not to go to work today,” one of us said. “We’re asking people to protest nuclear weapons. Sit down with us.”

By Sparrow November 1982
Photography

Tuli Kupferberg

Cartoons

The article is available as a PDF only. Click here to download.

By Tuli Kupferberg February 1982
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Terminal Restaurant

The Terminal Restaurant never looked real. Built like a small outdoor building indoors, and with its neon sign over the front door spelling its name in red, it made the place look like a movie set.

By S.J. Kaiserman January 1982
Fiction

A Neighbor At The Door

Then leo is saying listen, why don’t you come home with us for a cup of coffee, so I say really, like I have heard wifey-hostesses say all my life, and there is a flash of some kind of remembering across judas’s face that when people are being social this is the kind of thing they say and do.

By Pat Ellis Taylor November 1981