facts

  • As a Matter of Fact

    As a Matter of Fact

    Why show the mundanity of your life when you can make it glitter?

  • The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #26: Love Is the Ultimate Trip

    The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #26: Love Is the Ultimate Trip

    My day job is driving on the ride sharing platform, Lyft. Several years ago, I retired from teaching school to devote myself to writing and painting and lived off savings until I couldn’t. Four years ago, I started driving Lyft…

  • Every Editors Nightmare

    “The publisher functions more like an executive producer on a movie,” says the nonfiction author Susan Orlean. A New Yorker writer steeped in its culture of obsessive fact-checking, Orlean has had the converse publishing experience to Shane’s. “I remember being…

  • The Untidy World

    “In truth, memory’s great betrayal, that it will not lie intact in wait for us, is lament enough to revisit in every generation. This is what I go to nonfiction for, the way we pick at the scab, poke our…