I spent this last summer splitting time between research and retail, on a race to pay for my groceries. My mornings were spent alongside the surrealists of the 20th century, shivering in the unexpected coldness of the Manuscripts archive. My afternoons were about the material, holed up in the vintage store researching obscure military buttons…
In Red Waiting
Miranda Lynn Carter received a good-willed gift. It was a thick red sweater from a home catalog. Thank God! She thought. It was a sinister season after all. The winds would howl and sneer, and the snow engulfed the terrains. The poor girl was prone to colds and chills, sensitive to noise and touch. Her…
DOWN Reads
One’s Company (literary fiction) Ashley Hutson This is for you freaks who love tales of obsession. This debut takes comfort television to a whole other realm. After suffering a tragedy, Bonnie finds comfort in the 1970s hit sitcom Three’s Company. A few years after the tragedy Bonnie wins the lottery (cool right!? Wrong.) With her…
Don’t hate the (p)layer, hate the game
Given that it is properly winter now (as a struggling Cali-girl who wears a puffer when it is 60 degrees and cloudy), I have become a pro at the game of layering *insert smirky face*. So, with that being said, I hope you’ll take my self-proclaimed professional advice on how to not only elevate your…
an authorized syllabus
a guest column by Tyler Watts ’25 creative director How have I been living? Frankly I don’t know. I don’t live in routines, but I have rituals that shift around temporally. Regardless of when they occur: they always get done. My habituals are: eat-sleep-read-write-phone-coffee-singanddance-halfearnestprayer-burnincense-callfamily-seefriendsandacquaintances-plustimetimealone-lone-lone. How do I live my life? Ask the sun how it…