Josh Michtom tells a tale from the year he lived in a working class suburb of Buenos Aires. An enthusiastic young religion teacher tries to fire the imagination of a class of underachievers, and succeeds – for a while.
For three months the summer that Gloria Harrison was 13, she had to share a 20 foot travel trailer with her sister, her parents, and the family dog in 102 degree heat. Tensions ran high. And, to top it all off, she had to use the restroom.
As youth, we think we are invincible. Only when driving drunk through a gravel parking lot at 50 MPH with a ditch line fast approaching while listening to Snoop Dogg’s “It Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)” do we realize we are indeed flesh and blood, and can leave this world having lived pathetic, unfulfilled lives. In this memoir entry, Jeffrey Pillow recalls a time when he and his friend Jeremiah take his black Thunderbird for one last fateful spin.
The thought came to me when I was fifteen and trying to sleep on New Year’s Eve. Nothing I recall had happened to incite it. I’d spent the night babysitting my younger siblings while my mother attended a party, and she returned home around one in the morning and everyone went to bed. (My parents [...]
A conversation with Katie Arnoldi, author of the bestselling novel Point Dume, now available from Overlook Press. Other People is a twice weekly author interview podcast hosted by TNB founder Brad Listi. For more information, please visit the show's official website. And be sure to subscribe for free at iTunes.
