“In a psychiatric emergency, the response can be ad hoc and sometimes quite primitive. For example the Florida Parishes juvenile detention center still keeps a restraint chair in storage, in case a child becomes suicidal and nothing else can be …Read more…
THE AWL published my interview with the advice columnist Dear Sugar today: Last year, an anonymous writer took over the advice column Dear Sugar at The Rumpus. Soon, she’ll go public with her identity. Like many others, I’ve become obsessed with …Read more…
Writer Neil Jordan directs Cathy Tyson and Bob Hoskins in this 1986 love story about a chauffeur to a high-class call girl. Simple, straightforward scenes between Tyson and Hoskins are touching and powerful—for example, when she buys him some good …Read more…
As a public interest reporter, you treasure some emails. Such as the email this morning form the New Orleans coroner’s attorney, saying that a story we ran at The Lens yesterday had brought a law to his attention about budgeting …Read more…
When I was 22 I walked 20 feet across hot coals as part of a ridiculous rag week stunt at University. The coals were 1200 degrees Farenheit and hot enough to blister your skin on contact, but your reporter somehow …Read more…