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John Hughes

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An East African Girl and Her White Troubadours

  • Zebib K. A.
  • June 6, 2019
I was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
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Judging Kavanaugh

  • Lisa Gabriele
  • September 27, 2018
[W]omen won’t forget this come November and beyond.
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  • Sari Botton

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jason Diamond

  • Sari Botton
  • February 10, 2017
Jason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.
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The Rumpus Review of Seoul Searching

  • Claire Jia
  • August 11, 2016
Seeing is a critical part of normalizing, and though it seems like a rudimentary expectation, it’s important for American audiences to see Korean-Americans simply living their lives.
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Sitting Pretty

  • Theodora Messalas
  • July 8, 2016
With a flair for the both the juiciest and most humanizing parts of the story, Soraya Roberts over at Hazlitt pens a sweeping indictment of/love letter to John Hughes: Thirty…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Remembering Molly

  • Lisa Ellison
  • October 31, 2015
Ten years later I still wondered about those aviator glasses and whether The Breakfast Club could restore us.
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Working Draft of Another Life

  • Dorothy Bendel
  • July 6, 2015
We open in a wide framing shot of autumn-tinged trees lining a schoolyard. A procession of first-graders walk-run-skip down the sidewalk circling the school.
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The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To

  • M. Rebekah Otto
  • July 29, 2010
D. C. Pierson’s adolescent heroes hope for a future in which “‘existence engineer’ and ‘clone wrangler’ will be viable career paths.”
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Saturday Morning Links

  • Brian Spears
  • August 8, 2009
Welcome to Saturday, everyone. Hope you find this stuff as entertaining as I did. I’m not quite sure just what to make of this story: women in bathing sits and…
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