personal history
What Science Knows About Grief
When I asked Shear about the biological aftermath of grief, she brought up two-person neuroscience, an emerging discipline that studies how our brains affect other brains. “Our closest relationships,...
The Paperboy’s Secret
WHEREAS, many of the citizens of Columbia rely on newspaper carriers to bring them their only information concerning local and world events; andWHEREAS, many prominent citizens of the United...
Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris
All these years later, I could still see their room so clearly: its dark, almost black wood panelling, their checkerboard-tiled floor. It was three times the size of mine...
How I Became a Filmmaker
When I graduated from Oberlin, a year later, I decided that the best use of my limited income from babysitting would be to rent a hundred-and-fifty-square-foot “studio” a story...
Roger and the Smooth Fox Terriers
Roger and Carol had both worked and always hired dog walkers during the day, but Roger took Andy around the block for the last walk of the night. A...
And Your Little Dog, Too, by David Sedaris
“He just bit me!” I said.The woman stood upright and pushed her hair away from her face. She was pretty except for her mouth, which was thin-lipped and hard-looking....
Glowworms
In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me. Source link
Gary Shteyngart’s Tragicomedy of the Penis in “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong”
Watch “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong.” Gary Shteyngart was just seven years old when his family emigrated from the Soviet Union and settled in Queens. He remembers the...
What I Wanted, What I Got
The popular girl at my elementary school—let’s call her Denise—was not blond like Barbie but pretty in a conventional manner I envied. She had brown hair, skin that tanned...
Scenes from the “This Is Spinal Tap” Cutting-Room Floor
In 1982, I began shooting an almost entirely improvised film,“This Is Spinal Tap,” which also happened to be my first as a director. It transformed my life and the...
