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When the San Francisco-based entrepreneurs Will Petty and Skye Thompson posted a notice on Craig's List last May announcing their website FieldReport.com, which offers pots of prize money for the best nonfiction stories submitted, they were met with incredulity and even foul language by skeptics who thought they smelled a rat. "They were downright rude to us," Thompson recalled. "We were really shocked." (A typical post: "Yeah right...
...trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants all over town. Everywhere I looked, girls were celebrating physiques of the sort that once ignited the muumuu industry.") The announcement of her October win coincided with her retirement from her post-office job. "This has been a very good week," she said. "I'm now writing a book about my life in the postal service, called 'Miss Delivery...
...this question, drawing on extensive field research and the themes surrounding war since the ancient Greeks. “Ajax in Iraq,” McLaughlin’s new original play being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre this weekend, is the culmination of their studies, exploring the post-traumatic stress associated with the hardships accounted in war. The group has been working on the production for over a year, conducting interviews with veterans and soldiers in order to familiarize themselves with the war experiences of the present and the recent past. Students have also researched the evolution...
...Lose Friends & Alienate People,” the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir, stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, an obnoxious, Hollywood-obsessed Brit who lives above a Kebab Palace in London and edits a failing magazine called “The Post Modern Review.” His frequent attempts at party crashing grab the attention of “Sharps” magazine editor Clayton Harding, played by Jeff Bridges, who inexplicably offers Sidney a job in New York City. Upon arriving stateside, Sidney has several revelations: his new apartment still sits atop...
...third’s appearance throughout the new book that makes “Shipmates” unique. If not for the overwhelming ease with which Vowell alternates voices, it may have seemed overwrought and out of place to compare a moment of striking camaraderie in post-9/11 New York to the resolve of the passengers of the Arbella. The book could just as easily be a conversation with the author herself.“The Wordy Shipmates” is a gem, and Vowell’s ambitious and rewarding work to date. Unlike her contemporaries Bill Maher...