Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
All Categories - Journal of the Plague Years
February 15, 2025 ·
Lucian Truscott IV Celebrated as a novelist and screenwriter, and most recently as a Salon.com...
February 15, 2025 ·
Marc Cooper What a difference a 14-hour plane ride makes! There I was basking in the 90-degree...
February 15, 2025 ·
Roger Benham He awoke to the sea of his youth renamed, a caprice of the new king. The name...
February 8, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin It’s beautiful in southern California right now. Spring, perhaps false spring, rife...
February 8, 2025 ·
Amy Rigby How do you know you've really moved? Get a mammogram - I’m all signed up for the...
February 8, 2025 ·
Lisa Alvarez The young woman went alone. The journey required a bus, then an hour-long train...
February 8, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin The media missed the story on Pete Hegseth. Even Rachel Maddow, patron saint of the...
January 21, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin Few outside observers believed that Joe Biden would commute the sentence of...
January 20, 2025 ·
Kathy Goss Now that we need to evacuate the palace, we find that all the cardboard boxes have...
January 18, 2025 ·
Marc Cooper Greetings from Santiago. I was visiting friends and family here as January 6 came...
January 18, 2025 ·
Mike Madrid January 7th was my first day out of the house in weeks. I had spent the holidays...
January 18, 2025 ·
John Kruth According to a Passamaquoddy Indian named George I met at a rest stop on the...
January 18, 2025 ·
Hector Tobar Less than a month before fires began to ravage my hometown, State Farm sent me a...
January 16, 2025 ·
Dave Newman I woke from a delicate sleep to a hooker knocking on my truck window. It was late...
January 8, 2025 ·
Susan Zakin Southern California has always burned. But the fires now are more frequent, more...
January 4, 2025 ·
Brian Cullman No one ever wrote better about the blues than Stanley Booth, who died December...
January 4, 2025 ·
Stanley Booth Stanley Booth 1942-2024
December 29, 2024 ·
Lori Jakiela Jimmy Carter boarded the plane with the other passengers. This was 1999, the end...
December 22, 2024 ·
J.P. Sottile aka The NewsVandal We are heading into new territory, folks. Elon Musk, who is, as...
December 22, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin The first time many of us heard about Curtis Yarvin was right before the vice...
