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Later, everyone would agree it was the least likely time to encounter a deer. The two young guys in baseball caps who stopped to help us on the freeway said it. So did the highway patrolman who came to fill out the accident report after the two guys in baseball caps had gone to the next town and called for help.
By Debra MarquartNovember 1999I think crippled is the best word because it’s the most accurate. As a writer, I think language is supposed to be strong and definitive, and should speak of what is. Even the sound of crippled tells you something. It has a harshness about it that speaks to the condition. The writer’s job is to communicate an experience, and when you abstract from it with terms like “differently abled,” there’s no way you can communicate the pain of not being able to use your legs and the rage that is an inevitable concomitant of that pain.
By Dan WakefieldSeptember 1999For almost a month now I’ve been trying to collect the fifty-five dollars that a national environmental magazine owes me for a four-hundred-word book review. That’s two twenties, a ten, and a five.
By Stephen J. LyonsApril 1999January 1999Magazines all too often lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
Fran Lebowitz
This month marks The Sun’s twenty-fifth anniversary. As the deadline for the January issue approached — and passed — we were still debating how to commemorate the occasion in print. We didn’t want to waste space on self-congratulation, but we also didn’t think we should let the moment pass unnoticed. At the eleventh hour, we came up with an idea: we would invite longtime contributors and current and former staff members to send us their thoughts, recollections, and anecdotes about The Sun. Maybe we would get enough to fill a few pages. What we got was enough to fill the entire magazine.
By Keith Eisner, The Sun, Sarajane Archdeacon, Mark A. Hetts, Mark O’Brien, Bob Rehak, Stephen J. Lyons, Kenneth Klonsky, John Cotterman, Elizabeth Rose Campbell, Dana Branscum, Alison Luterman, Cat Saunders, Sparrow, Genie Zeiger, Janice Levy, Jim Ralston, Lorenzo W. Milam, Andrew Ramer, Ashley Walker, Pamela Tarr Penick, Ruth L. Schwartz, Antler, Sue Tremblay, Josephine Redlin, Edwin Romond, Heideh D. Kabir, William Timmerman, Mary Sojourner, Marc Polonsky, Julie Burke, Hal Richman, Vicky Lindo Kemish, Andrew Snee, Poe Ballantine, Gillian Kendall, Carolynn Schwartz, Pat Ellis Taylor, Colleen Donfield, Mark Smith-Soto, Dan Barker, Lynda Malone, Susannah Joy Felts, John Taylor Gatto, Alan Brilliant, Josip Novakovich, D. Patrick Miller, John Rosenthal, Joseph BathantiJanuary 1999There is a theory that dreams predict future dreams. For example, if you buy shoes in a dream, that means you will be better dressed in the next dream.
By SparrowNovember 1998August 1998The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite.
Michel de Certeau
Until recently, I hadn’t gone to bed sober in twenty-five years. I was a drunk when I first met my wife of twenty-three years, and I have been one ever since. I have been a pretty good drunk, as drunks go, without the usual DWIs, abusive behavior, or too dear a price paid for being too honest after my seventh or tenth drink.
By Neil DavidsonJuly 1998The definition is much broader now that feminist ideas have spread throughout the culture. I would say that anybody who wants to call herself a feminist is a feminist. In addition, there are “applied feminists” — to borrow the writer Carolyn Heilbrun’s wonderful term — meaning someone who may not call herself a feminist but who lives like one. In the early days, there was a lot of debate about who was a real feminist. At the beginning of any movement, definitions seem to matter more. In the late sixties, there was a sense that we were just a handful of people. As the movement spread, we were very worried about being co-opted. So whether or not a newcomer was a “true” feminist seemed to matter, especially if that person was representing feminism in the media; there was a lot of mistrust of the media. We didn’t want to give up on our larger ideals and settle for something less.
By Leora TanenbaumJune 1998Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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