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LaToya Jordan
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LaToya Jordan is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Thick-Skinned Sugar (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. Her writing has appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Mom Egg Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more. Visit her at latoyajordan.com.
Notable New York, This Week 5/09-5/15
This week in New York the winners of the “Discovery”/Boston Review read at the 92nd Street Y; Largehearted Lit presents a family reading at WORD; Suzanne Vega performs for a…
Writing About a Psychiatrist’s Death
“Dr. R’s is the Voice of the memoir—the voice in her head. So did writing the book end up being her way of continuing the conversation with him? ‘That was…
Happy Mother’s Day! Time to diet?
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the…
Notable New York, This Week 5/02-5/08
This week in New York Ai Weiwei’s public art installation debuts at Central Park; a talk on manga and graphic novels at The Japan Society; Kathryn Harrison, author of The…
Notable New York, This Week 4/25-5/01
This week in New York the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Cartoonists battle at FISTICUFFS at the 92Y Tribeca, How I Learned It’s Not Me, It’s You (Or…
Photos of Children Reenacting Tragedies
Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin convinced the parents of some very cute kids to allow him to photograph their children reenacting scenes from real-life tragedies, including the September 11th attack on…
Letter to the Editor
“Jess Row…snidely suggests that, for writers of “a certain age — my age . . . born in the 1970s,” Doctorow “is familiar more by reputation than by any direct…
Elif Batuman Meets Jonathan Franzen
“I told him that I had loved Freedom, which is true and would have been a great ending point for our exchange. So it’s difficult to articulate what possessed me,…
Notable New York, This Week 4/18-4/24
This week in New York, The Poetry Society of America takes on Irish and American poetry, Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, Rumpus Books Editor Andrew Foster Altschul…
Short Stories About Oil
“…it’s all around us, seeps into everything we do, but we don’t see it, we can’t see it, because it’s simply everywhere. It powers us into work, takes us on…