Editor’s Note: National regret Mitt Romney recently took five of his 22 (!) grandchildren rock-climbing across the American West, an experience he recounted via blog post on the self-publishing platform Medium.com. In typical Romney fashion, the […]
Author: Carmen Petaccio
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Mining The New Yorker’s Fiction Archives
Every story that has appeared in The New Yorker since 2007 is currently available to be read online, free of charge, before the magazine’s site institutes a pay wall later this year. See for yourself by […]
Top Five Reasons Israel Definitely Needs to Exist
The escalating violence between Israeli military forces and HAMAS has once again called into question the legitimacy of the state of Israel, that thing that definitely needs to exist. As anyone who has ever owned […]
What Carmelo Re-Signing Means
Carmelo Anthony re-signed with The New York Knicks for lack of a better option, as The New York Knicks re-signed Carmelo Anthony for lack of a better option. Loyalty was never a factor for either […]
2014.5 Top Five Lists With Zero Explanations
Top 5 Movies of 2014 So Far 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. The Lego Movie 3. Obvious Child 4. Edge of Tomorrow 5. Under the Skin Top 5 TV Shows of 2014 So Far […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Leftovers Pilot
In The Leftovers, HBO’s new prestige drama, two percent of the world’s population spontaneously disappears into thin air. The pope vanishes. Gary Busey dematerializes. Car seats are left barren all over the world. No explanation is […]
Which Fitness Cult Is For Me?
Having established temporary residency in Toms River, New Jersey for the next thirty days, I’m required by law to join a fitness cult. The question is, which one? There are so many! For anyone existing […]
How To Solve America’s Gun Problem
As long as there are guns in the this country, there will be gun violence in this country, and at the time of this writing there are more than 300 million guns in the United […]
Highlights From James Franco’s New Short Story “Bungalow 89”
The literature of James Franco defies any and all analysis. It simply…is. His motivations baffle. His creations perplex. To understand the how or why behind his writing is to understand the language of beasts. Comprehension […]
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