Eyelids open; flowers blossom; tiny beaks tap cracks in eggshells; crops sprout; creatures stalk, slide, and wriggle from their burrows;…
Tag: Essay
My Grandfather’s Imposter
The Explorer’s Club headquarters fill a five-story Jacobean townhouse on East 70th Street in Manhattan. The inside looks lifted from…
Bearded Oklahoma for Oklahoma Today Magazine
Oklahoma is one of the country’s most beard-friendly states. The American Mustache Institute, a St. Louis-based group advocating for the…
Confidence in Culture
The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, 20 years in the making, exemplifies a movement by Native American tribes to build the cultural machinery to tell the world their stories. – See more at: http://thislandpress.com/issues/this-machine-maps-the-stars-march-15-2014/#sthash.VyEI4pmo.dpuf
When the Rodeo Clowns Came
I live surrounded by retirees in rural Oklahoma. They are spry. They own arsenals of gardening equipment: lawnmower-tractor hybrids that…
On Bohemian Life in the Sooner State
HOMEWARD BOUND: Tahlequah via Brooklyn: James McGirk writes notes from a screened-in porch in a city that sleeps.
Destination Oklahoma: Route 66
What you really need to live here is a truck. Maybe not in the cities, but out here, in the…
The Metropolitan Trilogy
After writing a spate of reasonably successful—and very autobiographical—novels, James Ellroy and Martin Amis took the cities surrounding them and…
Constitutional Crisis
Cherokee Nation has what seems to be an unusual fixation with lawyers and writing—at least for an outsider looking in.…
North Korea’s Nerve War
The Moranbong Band is best imagined as a North Korean version of Celtic Woman: an all-female ensemble band swaddled in…