Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
All Categories - Journal of the Plague Years
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Michael Maness Greetings from Sydney. Even from here I can see a the clouds darkening. The...
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Susan Zakin I was talking to a well-known journalist recently - not on the record so I won’t...
Marc Cooper This will be a short note as I’m readying a three-day trip to Los Angeles in the...
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Susan Zakin There are news stories that haunt you. Maybe it’s just journalists, but I don’t...
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"America is Watching the Rise of a Dual State" is the unprepossessing title of the most...
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Roger Benham with Susan Zakin I laid my tarp and sleeping bag between an ocotillo and the dried...
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Anna Gotlib In her villanelle, “One Art,” the poet Elizabeth Bishop conveyed feelings that I've...
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Susan Zakin There are so many stories about Donald Trump and Russia flailing around the...
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2028 is Coming
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Jim Carrier As I watch America’s elite institutions abandon diversity, equity and inclusion...
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Joan Juliet Buck Fierce winds all night. N rescued the garbage cans from the middle of the...
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When Trump 2.0 hit, we thought "surely this is too terrible to joke about." No more meme...
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Mikal Gilmore Jan. 21 Nullification. That’s where my thoughts finally landed, lying there...
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Trigger warning: Watching the Jerry Springer-like cascade of Trumpian lies while Ukrainian...
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Lucian Truscott IV Celebrated as a novelist and screenwriter, and most recently as a Salon.com...
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Marc Cooper What a difference a 14-hour plane ride makes! There I was basking in the 90-degree...
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Roger Benham He awoke to the sea of his youth renamed, a caprice of the new king. The name...
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Après John, le deluge
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Susan Zakin It’s beautiful in southern California right now. Spring, perhaps false spring, rife...
