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  • Ballet Dancers in Quarantine: Introducing Tiny Garage Show [by Stacey Lehman]

    September 20, 2020

    When New York City Ballet dancer Claire Kretzschmar returned to Winston-Salem, NC to quarantine, she kept up her ballet practice in the family garage. To her, she was just doing what she does, but…

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  • Jiwon Choi: Pick of the Week (x2) [ed. Terence Winch]

    September 20, 2020

                      ________________________________________________________________________________________ Memoir Mori   In Part One, I will introduce my mother, butcher-in-chief feasting on her young, bones and gristle, sauté and sizzle with toothsome…

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  • “G-D in a Cup” [by Loren Goodman]

    September 18, 2020

    The “o” in G-dIn “G-d in a Cup”Is like the mouthOf the universeInto which G-dHas from this worldDisappeared. ThisAbsence of the “o”Is also like the coffeeThat has been fromThe cup faithfully sippedThe “u” in…

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  • Available Now: The Best American Poetry 2020

    September 18, 2020

    The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title”…

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  • Just In Time For Rosh Hashana: The Jewish Food Society Podcast [by Stacey Lehman]

    September 17, 2020

    One of the highlights of 2017 was the opportunity to participate in Schmaltzy, a Jewish Food Society live storytelling event where celebrity chefs, grandmas, tech entrepreneurs and culinary mavens tell personal stories about when…

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  • In Burlington, Vermont, September 2018

    September 17, 2020

    When we went to Burlington, Vermont, in September 2018, as guests of Major and Didi Jackson, we discovered Barr Hill gin (sublime), sipped a drink that a local cafe owner concocted in Major's honor,…

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