Nonfiction
Nonfiction
A Short History of Hysteria
It was the ancient Greeks who coined the term “hysteria”; Hippocrates, in fact. It means the disease of the movement of the uterus.
Asymmetrical We
Twist the doorknob to the apartment, walk inside, and it’s, “I’m holding a doctor’s letter saying my daughter wants a sex change operation into a man. That true?”
Somewhere Between Black and White
I think Rick Ross was playing. Some track about droptop Maybachs and spraying champagne on Puerto Rican girls with fat asses.
Claim + Evidence = Thesis
A lecture, I can’t quite recall the course title: The Something Something of Power. I was fulfilling a requirement at Hampshire College.
The Politics of Tragedy
Carey Gabay was all the things that the news reported him to be under the headline, “Cuomo Aide Shot in the Head,” followed by, “Cuomo Calls for National Gun Control,” that I read first thing Monday morning
Based on the Actual Story
Argo is primarily one man’s vision of how six Americans managed to flee Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis.
Doorways in Time
The door frame hugs me as I step across a boundary in time.
Looking for the Buddha
The essence of the Buddhist path of practice is the refinement of perception.
Beyond Portland
One of our campsites was at the end of a hostile run of unpaved road.
The Vehicle of Escape
When I was very young, we used VCRs. Soon after, of course, we switched to laserdiscs before DVDs, and so on and so forth, but even today, that original machine is still familiar to me.
