Proofs of Concept for Legal Pot Packaging
Print Magazine, anticipating the legalization of pot in the US within 15 years or so, asked four design firms to come up with commercial packaging for marijuana cigarettes.Strømme Throndsen designed an...
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Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso
There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays out in...
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Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016
It is November 1996, and Bill Clinton has just been re-elected as the President of the United States. I am eleven years old. I’m in the back seat of the car with my brother beside me, and my parents up...
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Staying Syncretic: A Conversation with Kool A.D.
Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez was a member of the rap group Das Racist, which had hits like “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” and “hahahaha jk” that mixed Dada sensibilities with straight-up hip-hop....
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The Delusion of Objectivity: Talking with Leslie Jamison
In preparation for writing this introduction and conducting this interview with author Leslie Jamison, I spent an embarrassing number of hours scouring the Internet in what I imagined would culminate...
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful
The first time I wrote about addiction was in the mid-1990s, in a creative writing class at Columbia University. The professor asked us to write about something beautiful from our childhood. I wrote...
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The Blacker the Berry, the Quicker They Shoot
I am born in the year of mayhem. A Google search for my roots reveals a spectacle of hyperbolic headlines christening 1990 the deadliest year in America. At the dawn of a new decade, a killing occurs...
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Disrupting Language Hierarchies: Talking with Judith Santopietro
In Bolivia, the coqa leaf is sacred to Indigenous communities and an important crop in its economy. So when Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, came into office in 2006, he resisted...
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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
The poems in Enzo Silon Surin’s debut full-length collection reach off the page and grab you by the throat—which makes its title, When My Body Was a Clinched Fist, particularly appropriate. Full of...
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