A 16-year-old girl’s body was found at a run-down religious shrine in Waterbury, CT. Matt Salyer reflects on the difference between the real and the believable.

According to Forbes magazine, Seattle is the most miserable city for sports in the United States…

National Book Award nominee Madison Smartt Bell talks about his latest book, one he calls “the most vicious and appalling story ever to pass through my hand to the page.”

What’s Ben Roethlisberger got to do with it?

If there is sin in forgetting, perhaps then that is what I am: a sleeper, having sinned from choosing to forget.

Gina Frangello’s father always referred to Joey “the Clown” Lombardo as “a good kid.” When the Mobster is sentenced to life in prison, Gina looks back on the ways violence shaped her youth and her father’s paradoxical identity in the neighborhood he saw as a paradise and she saw as a war zone.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009. I’m in my room on Albert Street in Augusta Maine, being held hostage. A woman almost a decade my junior has just told me she was raped last night, but for some reason she is directing all her rage at me.

A schizophrenic stands on the same Chicago corner every day holding up crazy-ass signs. Boose finally finds the balls to talk to him.