Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
- Sep 4, 2017
- 5 min
The RAT File: Kurt Vonnegut
The RAT office nested among the still Jewish and Ukrainian tenements of East 4th street. A rumpled man tentatively opened the door. At...
Frank Viviano
- Aug 17, 2017
- 2 min
A Deplorable Situation
Another bone to the deplorable dogs: he's now on record that it's "foolish" to tear down Confederate statues. Once someone goes after...
H.H. Howze
- Jul 6, 2017
- 3 min
A FALSE FLAG IN WARTIME
With all the recent controversy about immigration, legal and illegal, it is instructive to look back a century to another immigrant group...
H.H. Howze
- Jun 25, 2017
- 4 min
A 'Gunboat' in Texas
In an era when the minimum salary for Major League Baseball players is $535,000 and the highest paid player, Dodger pitcher Clayton...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollprose.com
- May 8, 2017
- 5 min
Happy Days
We didn’t know what we were doing. We were making it up as we went along. It was glorious. In the early 70s, magazine start-ups were like...
Martin Snapp / California Magazine
- May 8, 2017
- 9 min
All the Presidents’ Historians: How Legacies of Leaders Change
Donald Trump’s critics say he’s the worst president ever; his fans say he’s one of the best. That’s par for the course: Barack Obama and...