Category Archives: New York
by Caroline Higgins | Jan 7, 2018
The street is lined in red light
and girls with cats in cages.
Stand outside in the frigid, January air.
by Stephanie Bradshaw | Dec 29, 2017
Most people say that I shouldn’t let anything hold me back from doing great things. But I don’t have much desire to do great things. What are great things without the small things?
by Caroline Higgins | Nov 7, 2017
Crowds of people stand with their backs to the colors, their eyes on their phones or on the train tracks. “Turn around!” I want to say, “You’re missing it.”
by Caroline Higgins | Oct 7, 2017
For a moment, I wondered if I should be embarrassed. Then I remembered that loving Tom Petty is not embarrassing.
by Catherine Kramer | Aug 13, 2017
And if Regina Spektor happens to be giving a concert in Central Park on that particular Wednesday, who’s to say I have to move my painstakingly planned picnic?
by Caroline Higgins | Aug 7, 2017
The next day is exactly like the first.
We don’t check the news.
Phones die on the picnic table while we swim.
by Catherine Kramer | Jul 13, 2017
According to Google, there are twelve independent bookstores in upper Manhattan, the section of the city I call home.
by Caroline Higgins | Jul 7, 2017
After I signed a waiver that confirmed I wouldn’t sue Equinox if I died on the treadmill or passed out because I saw Blake Lively, we entered the immaculate studio.
by Catherine Kramer | Jun 13, 2017
It felt like I was coming face to face with someone I’ve known my whole life: a trusted confidant, a wise neighbor and teacher and principal and professor.
by Alissa Anderson | Jun 5, 2017
I wonder, sometimes, if you feel forgotten. After all, I did not become an English professor, as I once thought I might.
