The Bellow/Parcells Letters
Forget worrying over book contracts, alcoholism, or unwanted kids—where do Nobel laureate authors turn for advice on their hair? Discovering the lost correspondence between two great authors.
Stories
A collection of 161 issues
Fuego! Fuego!
The Peace Corps has ambitious goals for its programs and participants, though setting a pueblo on fire isn’t one of them. Former Corps member Matthew Baldwin recounts the early days in San Pedro, Bolivia, before his infamy.
Certifiable
Sure, teaching isn’t for everyone. Finding that out may be difficult, but the awful truth that drives many out of the classroom, screaming, is even harder to learn. Our writer was a teacher.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair In Hell: The Mad Minister From Circle Six, Part I
In the fourth chapter of Madalyn’s adventures in the underworld, a controversial film has Hell up in arms! Kevin Guilfoile continues the saga of everyone’s favorite atheist sleuth.
TiVo’d
Technology can be a scary thing, in the wrong hands. Luckily, there’s help. A visit with an analyst about a personal video problem.
The Lonely Days
Many people have their own holidays—grandparents, secretaries, certain dead presidents—but what about the ordinary man, lost in this modern world? A global brochure of holidays for men who are alone.
Neocons, Midwives, and Me
After Ozzfest and Gigli, Howard Dean was the show to see this summer. Ace reporter Matthew ‘Punch’ Baldwin attended a rally with two friends who, for very different reasons, want Dean to win the primary.
Second Careers
When it’s time to change careers or face hardship in the workplace, many Americans ask, what would Jesus do? According to John Warner, most hockey players would prefer not to know.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Not stuck in the back of a station wagon, but stuck in a doldrums with cheap hot dogs, hidden popsicles, and a soulmate lost. Kevin Fanning brings the words, Reuben Stanton brings the pictures.
Stuck in Craw City
Baseball’s history is thick with stories of bad luck, but no one’s unluckier than Louisiana’s minor-league Gizzards. Tobias Seamon writes in with a bit of baseball fiction.