In 1979, Michael Clark was in his mid-thirties, fresh off a divorce and back from a Peace Corps stint in Africa with his hair hanging down past his shoulders, teaching whatever classes the administrat...

In 1979, Michael Clark was in his mid-thirties, fresh off a divorce and back from a Peace Corps stint in Africa with his hair hanging down past his shoulders, teaching whatever classes the…

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Wit Tea - The Offing Magazine

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

Vol. XLVII, No. 4

* Sick and Tired Jodie Noel Vinson * Like many during the pandemic lockdown, my husband Marc and I watched and re-watched shows from our cou...

* Run the Train Lily Herman * Content warning: violence, sexual abuse, genocide, infant mortality, substance use disorder. I felt the man’s...

…All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Eight Memoirs on Wearing Words Michael Martone * Magic Marker There was an empty box printed in black in...

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An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh has left one dead and dozens injured or trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them.

All things Kate Braverman, ghost archives, and unlikely coincidences

Excerpt from Katherine Larson’s excellent new book The Wedding of the Foxes, and an interview with her. Book release 8/3/25 + social to follow.

Poet and Writer

Leah Mensch is an Arab-Jewish writer and MFA candidate at the University of Arizona. They are at work on a book about the late Los Angeles writer Kate Braverman and archives on the margins.

Raquel Gutiérrez will be reading from her 2022 book of essays, “Brown Neon”, Friday night at 7:30 in the Creative Media Theatre inside Milton Hall on the NMSU campus, part of the Nelson-Boswell Readin...