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- Cholita fashion shows -- Chuck Sturtevant -- 06/05/2008
Forget Paris -- we know you've been dying for the latest news from the Cholita runway. Thanks to Salt's official Bolivian correspondent, we've got it. |
- Animal trauma -- Zachary Slobig -- 06/05/2008
A month after moving into his new place, Zach was the first person on the scene when his neighbor's dog was the victim of a hit-and-run. |
- Exclusive Interview With the Chinese Backstreet Boys -- Catherine Price -- 12/11/2007
You know, the guys who did the YouTube videos lipsynching American pop songs? Thanks to the help of sinologist Jeremy Brown, we got to find out about their inspiration was, what their creative process is like, and who the hell the guy in the background is. |
- El Che is Dead, Long Live El Che -- Chuck Sturtevant -- 12/11/2007
Chuck is Salt's official (and only) correspondent in Bolivia. Here, a dispatch from Valle Grande, on the the fortieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara. (For programming reasons that continue to confuse us, the first page of this article is blank. Skip straight to page 2!) |
- The Golden Compass -- Daniel Antoniazzi -- 12/11/2007
In an all-too-common feat of cinematic ingenuity, the whole of this movie is less than the sum of its parts. Or so says Dan, our newest movie critic. |
- Bourne Again! -- Lachlan McTavish -- 08/22/2007
We first published "Lachlan"'s Bourne tribute in 2004, but now that the Bourne Ultimatum has hit the box office, we felt it was appropriate to share this again. Maybe it's just us, but it seems like he's on to something. |
- Typhoid Mary -- Tiny Strips Of Heart Tissue -- 08/22/2007
Catherine became obsessed with Tiny Strips of Heart Tissue when she heard their tribute song to Typhoid Mary. Here it is on Salt, plus a little something extra. |
- Los Gringos on YouTube -- Boomie Aglietti -- 08/22/2007
How do you say "me gusta"? Boomie and his gringo crew put together this spoof commercial for the delicious Mexican fruit cola, Jarritos. Warning: it's addictive! |
- What's The Deal With Adults and Coffee? -- Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock -- 04/25/2007
Bonnie Sue's 10-year-old daughter, Sylvie, did a piece for AK radio about why adults are so obsessed with coffee drinks. Bonnie Sue says it took twenty tries to get out the words "physician's assistant" -- but we think Sylvie did a great job. |
- Never Believe an Alaskan -- Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock -- 02/20/2007
If an Alaskan "friend" invites you to go salmon sledding with them, look up "gullible" in a dictionary and see if you can find your picture. Here's Bonnie Sue with Salt's first-ever radio piece. |
- Those Damned Eunuchs -- Jesus and the Moneychangers -- 02/20/2007
Jesus and the Money Changers allowed Catherine into "their" apartment for a personal recording session of songs "they" did in college, including this Jonathan Spence-inspired shoutout to the Chinese eunuch, Wei Zhong Xian (and some other songs, too). |
- A Row Of Her Own -- Catherine Price -- 01/10/2007
Anyone who thinks that Catherine is a sane, rational human being should never spend time with her when she's taking a long-haul, overnight flight. Trust us on this. |
- Hallelujah, A Repenomamus! -- Nick Frankfurt -- 01/10/2007
Nick Frankfurt is an amazing artist. He loves dinosaurs. Here is one of his drawings, which we posted without his knowing about it--but luckily, he didn't mind. |
- The Cocky Swagger -- Chris Rhudy -- 01/10/2007
We here at Salt love any piece that has to do with 5k fun-runs that go by the name of "Turkey Trots." |
- Les Collages -- KC Trommer -- 11/13/2006
KC is not only a talented writer, but she also knows how to cut things up and make them look pretty. Click here for slides. |
- Aabservations, China-Style -- Liz Aab -- 11/13/2006
Liz Aab is in China right now. We at Salt are very jealous. But lucky for us, Liz has kept us updated on her adventures. Here, one of the first things she wrote when she got to China--about missing food. |
- Payeurism -- Matt Payeur -- 11/13/2006
Just in time for winter, some photographs from Vermont photographer, Matt Payeur. Click here for slides. |
- Juvenalia, Jenny Wilson Style -- Jenny Wilson -- 10/05/2006
When she was approximately 11, Jenny Wilson kicked her brother Nathan in the balls. Her parents made her write a note to apologize. (Editor's note: Jenny is currently in med school.) |
- Parking Violations: Ticket #4 -- Mark Trushkowsky -- 07/25/2006
Oh man, Mark is on fire. In this, his latest successful attempt to get out of an NYC parking ticket, he asks that those who serve in the name of the United States Census not be served by the department of traffic violations. |
- An Important New Article For Salt -- Alex Rubens -- 07/25/2006
That's what Alex called it, and that's how it shall be known. Listen well, children, and try to figure out what inspired Alex(ander) to write this. (And nota bene: I never cry blood.) |
- Why Camelbaks Suck -- Catherine Price -- 07/25/2006
This article was originally in the SF Chronicle, next to a picture of a weird-looking woman with bangs, in a tank top, wearing boxing gloves, positioned in such a way that it made it look like she was me. She wasn't. |
- Parking Violations: Ticket #3 -- Mark Trushkowsky -- 05/03/2006
Oh, man, Mark Trushkowsky would give Officer Banjo a run for his money. Here, his third successful attempt to get out of an NYC parking ticket. He should lead workshops. |
- Writer in a Jar: Paul Grellong -- Paul Grellong -- 05/03/2006
Kent Roberts treats us to a Writer in a Jar interview with our very own Paul Grellong, who is not only a Salt Contributor, but a writer for Law and Order SVU. We call this "Coffee IVs, Subway Wallpaper and Hollywood v. Vermont." Enjoy. |
- To The Max (Or, On Pedantry) -- Max Perelman -- 05/03/2006
We are thrilled to announce the debut of long-time-listed-contributor-first-time author Max Perelman (aka, "The Human Wikipedia"), who answered random questions Catherine gathered for him over a brunch at Andy and Jenny's house. Got something you want answered? Email him. |
- Dough Sacks of the World, Unite! -- Nora Ericson -- 05/03/2006
Anyone viscerally disturbed by the term "dough sack," be reassured: these are delicious recipes from Nora's kitchen which, I promise you, is a very nice place to be. |
- Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy -- Catherine Price -- 03/19/2006
Yes, I totally stole that title from the eponymous hit by Big & Rich. But whatever. You should still go to the Saddle Rack, Fremont's answer to anyone looking to live their cowboy dreams. |
- Parking Violations: Ticket #1 -- Mark Trushkowsky -- 02/03/2006
When Mark Trushkowsky gets a parking ticket, he fights back. Not with weapons, but with letters to the judge that explain the circumstances behind his infraction. Five out of six times, this has gotten him off the hook. |
- YOSAR: The Slides -- Lincoln Else -- 02/03/2006
Many people have asserted that, as a climbing ranger and YOSAR member, Lincoln Else has "the coolest job ever." This is true. But then again, he has to deal with a lot of dead people. Click here for slides. |
- I've Got Game -- Catherine Price -- 02/03/2006
There are very few things that actually embarrass me. Taking an improv comedy class was one of them. |
- The Passion: A Tale of Aggression -- Eli Evans -- 12/20/2005
This involves frustrations with cars and roommates, but is refreshingly free of anything regarding Mel Gibson. My theory as to why the 1st, 6th, 7th and 12th pages are blank? It's the roommate. Be strong. |
- Flowers: The Second Spring -- Dan Butler -- 12/20/2005
My favorite things about these slides from Dan Butler is that they make me feel like spring. But guess what? It's not! It's the dead of winter! Oh, photography. Click here for slides. |
- Boris: The Bike Blog -- Boris The Amazing -- 12/20/2005
Remember how Josh Gardner blamed Boris for killing the book club? (See last issue.) Well, here's Boris's take on things. Or, rather, his ill-fated bike trip to Patagonia. |
- My Time With the Opera -- Garden Goblin -- 11/09/2005
Ever wonder what it'd be like to play a mute clown in a professional opera? Ignore the blank first page (mysterious!) and read this. |
- Moses on Moses -- Itamar Moses -- 11/09/2005
Thanks to an excellent suggestion by Heidi, we present you with our latest installment of our Writer in a Jar interview series: Itamar Moses interviewing Itamar Moses. |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Hilton Als -- Hilton Als -- 11/08/2005
Hilton Als is a staff writer at The New Yorker, not to mention an award-winning critic, recipient of a 2000 Guggenheim fellowship for creative writing and an all-around impressive person. Luckily for Salt, he agreed to talk with Catherine for this installment of Salt's "Writer in a Jar" interview series, where we stick a writer in a jar like a bug and look at them real close. |
- Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone -- Meghan Laslocky -- 10/17/2005
Meghan Laslocky's recent piece on Salon about Real Dolls and the men who love them has set the blogosphere on fire. Luckily for Salt, Meghan has granted us her original, longer version of the piece. Check it out online, or click here for a printable PDF. |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Gina Kolata -- Gina Kolata -- 10/17/2005
Chances are, if you’re obsessed with influenza, you’ve heard of Gina Kolata—the New York Timesscience writer and author of Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic. Luckily for Salt, Kolata took a break from reporting to talk with Catherine for the latest installment of our Writers in a Jar interview series, in which we stick a writer in a jar like a bug and look at them real close. |
- Paris, les Photos -- Vinit Desai -- 10/17/2005
Will Vinit Desai please stop going to cool places and taking photographs so classy, so evocative, that they make certain Salt editors want to eat exorbitant amount of chocolate croissants? Click here for slides. |
- Vinit Does Hawaii -- Vinit Desai -- 10/01/2005
Vinit Desai had a summer of adventure, chronicled in part here in his photographs of Hawaii. They prove, once and for all, that tropical island paradises make it very difficult to get work done. Click here for slides. |
- Park Slope Internships! -- Itamar Moses -- 09/29/2005
To respond to any of these internships, please email Itamar Moses through his contributor's page. If you would like to suggest that he not bite the hand that feeds him, you may contact him directly. |
- I missed the USKBA Kings of Sport Fighting Championships
-- Josh Gardner -- 08/08/2005
Yes, Josh missed the USKBA Kings of Sport Fighting Championships. But yet he did go on a family vacation. Which, if you think about it, is kind of like the USKBA King of Sport Fighting Championships (especially when you take pictures). As is often the case with Josh, we have nothing more to say. |
- At Liberty -- Nathanael Johnson -- 08/08/2005
When Nate got a job in New York for the summer, he expected glamour and excitement. Then he got sent to a premier of The Fantastic Four on Liberty Island. Glamour, no. Excitement, yes. Reporters looting the gift shop as the entire event dissolved in a rain storm? Definitely. |
- Filler: The Twelfth Installment -- Robby O'Connor -- 08/08/2005
We know you missed him. But never fear--Robby O'Connor is back with the latest installment of Filler, our absolute favorite comic strip dealing with post-collegiate angst. Click here for slides. |
- On Moving to New York City -- Nathanael Johnson -- 07/21/2005
You know how, when you spend a lot of time in one place, you become numb to it--until someone from the outside points out to you its absurdity and beauty? Contributor Nathanael Johnson, fresh from California, is in New York for the summer. Here, some of his first impressions. |
- Flying Over Texas -- Andrea Goldstein -- 07/21/2005
Andrea's one of those people who make you happy about the future of America. She's about to start at U Chicago, after having made a name for herself in NYC's prep school circuit as one of the only high school students who wore a toga to school. (Salt fans will recall her classical obsessions.) Here, a poem. |
- The Best Celebrity Profile Ever -- Itamar Moses -- 07/21/2005
If you have ever been as annoyed by celebrity profiles as we have been (and trust us, we've read a lot), then you should read this, Itamar's latest. (Why is page 2 blank? We do not know.) |
- California Dreaming: A Western Take on the American Dream -- Catherine Price -- 06/26/2005
Anyone who was friends with Catherine from oh, last January until mid-May knows that her life was consumed by creating a multimedia project about the American Dream. Here, the fruits of her efforts. (Hint, start at the Dream and work backwards. And click play on the control bar to watch the slide shows.) |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Brendon Small -- Brendon Small -- 06/26/2005
Laura Jacqmin interviews Brendon Small, from "Home Movies" and "Deathclock" Comedy Central fame, for Salt's Writer in a Jar interview series. Music, cartoons, whether or not animation gets you play . . . what don't these two talk about. (Why are pages 3 and 8 blank, you ask? I don't know. Perservere, dear reader, perservere.) |
- My So-Called Novel -- Susan Welsh -- 06/26/2005
In a piece that may resonate with Salt readers who promise Catherine that soon, soon they will send her something, Susan Welsh writes about her attempts to write. Susan's successful soft porn piece for Pillow Talk aside, it's hard, man. Really hard! |
- Slides: Copper Pan -- Dan Butler -- 06/26/2005
Dan Butler graces us again with striking photos, this time of a simple copper pan that, thanks to light and oil, has turned into something beautiful. |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Cynthia Kaplan -- Cynthia Kaplan -- 04/25/2005
Salt's Terra McVoy talks with Cynthia Kaplan, author of Why I’m Like This: True Stories. Kaplan’s essays have been published in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Organic Style, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and numerous other publications and anthologies. She is also a comedy writer/performer and has appeared in clubs and theaters throughout New York. Here in an email interview, Ms. Kaplan discusses her personal battles and triumphs with writing, performing, and snot rags. |
- Photos from China: Photos! -- Gene Perelson -- 04/25/2005
When editor Gene Perelson went to China last winter, he did more than bond with his then-Beijing-bound father and star in a bizarre documentary about his grandfather. Click here for slides. Slides! |
- Running into Trouble in Azerbaijan -- Jonathan Griswold -- 04/11/2005
When Jonathan Griswold went for a walk with two friends in Azerbaijan searching for a castle, he didn't expect to get held up by two soldiers at a military checkpoint, being threatened for cash. But hey, you never know what you're going to get. |
- Assorted Photographs -- Matt Payeur -- 03/28/2005
When Matthew Payeur contacted us a few months ago, his email concluded, "If you like them that's great, and if not and you want to delete them that is fine too. I just thought I'd give it a shot. I mean hey, I live in Vermont, what else is there to do." We didn't delete them. |
- A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Salt Contributor -- Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts -- 03/27/2005
For this, our latest Writer in a Jar interview, Paul Grellong talks to Onion and New Yorker contributors Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts about their new book, A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man that, in a rare incidence of us being timely, is coming out March 29th. Please note: unlike other such interviews, this was not emailed: Paul got up in their business in person, and they let him. Read it. |
- My Holy Man is Better Than Yours -- Alex Rubens -- 03/14/2005
Does the title of this piece of fiction make anyone else get "Milkshake" in their heads? ("My ho-ly man is better than yours, I'm like, he's better than yours.") Anyone? (Also, due to a programming glitch, this starts on the 2nd page. Can't figure out how to fix it. Apologies.) |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Jonathan Ames -- Jonathan Ames -- 02/28/2005
A self-described “George Plimpton of the colon,” Jonathan Ames is the author of five books, a former columnist for the New York Press, the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a story-teller and performer (witness the 1999 Off-off Broadway run of Oedipussy) and a one-time amateur boxer, fighting under the name “The Herring Wonder.” When Catherine approached him at a benefit event for the 826 NYC writing center, Jonathan agreed to an interview for Salt’s “Writer in a Jar” interview series. |
- Flagging -- Lincoln Else -- 02/28/2005
Last October an intense fall storm caught four climbing parties off-guard on the exposed face of America's most famous cliff: El Capitan. Yosemite's search and rescue team pulled together its largest rescue operation in over a decade to try and reach these climbers before it
was too late. Salt contributor Lincoln Else led the first team of rescuers to the summit. |
- Lies and Liability -- Nathanael Johnson -- 02/28/2005
Faithful Salt readers might recognize Nate's name from the byline of a piece about sex parties. But that's not all he's about, people. Here, the first in a series about his experiences as a river guide. |
- A Diabetic Love Affair -- Catherine Price -- 02/14/2005
You know when you forget to write new something new for Salt's Valentine's Day issue and are forced to post an embarrassing piece of total fiction that you wrote as a joke to yourself about the sexual implications of your chronic disease? No? Well, check this out. |
- A Bedtime Story, Bent & Broken -- Gene Perelson -- 02/14/2005
Oh the bitter winds of Romance! Nothing brings out the bent and broken like Valentine's Day. A Bedtime Story, Bent and Broken, is an all too true fairy tale in the ongoing Salt series from Salt Editor-in-Chief, Gene Perelson. |
- Flowers: First in a Series -- Dan Butler -- 02/14/2005
Catherine met Dan at the Union Square Market and was captivated by his beautiful photographs of flowers (she bought prints, supposedly for thank-you cards, and then horded them all for herself). A long game of email tag ensued, and now--glory be--we finally have his pictures up on Salt. Consider them a Valentine's Present to the world. |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Andrea Reese -- Terra McVoy -- 01/31/2005
Salt's Terra McVoy talks with Andrea Reese, writer and star of the one-woman show, Cirque Jacqueline, a play about the late Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, which covers her life from childhood with an abusive father, through her marriage to Jack Kennedy and his assassination, to her scandalous marriage with Aristotle Onassis and into the later decades of her life. |
- Filler: The Tenth Installment -- Robby O'Connor -- 01/31/2005
Robby O'Connor's back with another batch of comics. There's something so satisfying about reading about recent college graduates who are more clueless than we are. Click here for slides. |
- All The Ladies . . . -- Andrea Goldstein -- 01/31/2005
Salt contributor and high school senior extraordinaire Andrea Goldstein, when not pontificating on Greek and Roman goddesses, also fancies the Civil War. Here, a look at some of the women who fought. |
- Free Stock Photoems -- Kyoung Kim -- 01/31/2005
Geese. Hat. Trophy. Here's what happens when Salt contributing editor, Kyoung Kim, takes a cocktail of a late night, a random selection of Googled "free stock photos," and words. |
- Wax On, Wax Off -- Patrick Farrell -- 01/17/2005
Correspondent and former bike mechanic Sean Patrick Farrell is a whiskey-drinking man's man. That is, until he signs up for a manicure and ends up getting his back waxed. Just be glad it wasn't a bikini. |
- Student Comments I Wish I Could Have Written -- Catherine Price -- 01/17/2005
Back in the day, Catherine was responsibile for the mathematical education of 72 middle school boys. This required writing personalized comments for each student three times a year, each upbeat, perky and encouraging. Here, a sample of the comments she wish she could have written. |
- An Orphan's Thanksgiving -- Ali Berzon -- 01/17/2005
Ali Berzon went straight from Thanksgiving with her family to dinner with strangers she met on Craig's List. Less butter, more tofurkey. Here, her report. |
- The Salt Juvenilia: Installment I, "The Freckle Family" -- Heidi Vogt -- 01/17/2005
Salt Magazine, as a depository of literary triumphs large and small, knows that sometimes the best window into our contributors' genius is through the unvarnished, unedited brilliance of youth.
In this first installment of The Salt Juvenilia, we bring you "The Freckle Family," a tale of daring intrigue written by one of our contributing editors when she was a wee, freckle-faced nine year old. |
- home -- Josh Sohn -- 01/03/2005
Josh Sohn graces Salt with another story. Since we never know how to preface fiction, we'll excerpt his email as an introduction: "Here's the thing," he writes. "I don't know what it means, but I worked hard on it."
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- Auto Closure Puts In, or Fun With Tech Support -- Salt Magazine -- 01/03/2005
Nothing replicates the discomfort of a throat culture quite like a call to tech support. Intrepid Salt writer "Mike" shares with us an IM conversation with a representative from an online fax service. "Mike" wanted to be anonymous, and Gene and Catherine like the spotlight, so we'll show up for the author picture. And yes, this is true. |
- Assorted Photos -- Taro Hashimura -- 01/03/2005
Taro and Catherine went to high school together way back in the day. Catherine has vague memories of Taro being an excellent photographer back then and, hey, guess what--he's still got it. Click here for slides. |
- Filler: The Ninth Installment -- Robby O'Connor -- 01/03/2005
Comic artist Robby O'Connor is back with another installment of his strip, Filler. Check out his author file to catch up on the plot. Or live in the moment and just click here for slides. |
- The Commercial Audition -- Garden Goblin -- 12/13/2004
Have you ever been sitting in front of the TV, watching a commercial for StoveTop Stuffing, and thought to yourself, "Man, I could do that!" Yeah? Well read this, tough guy: in his 2nd dispatch on the world of acting, Salt's correspondent gives us a taste of just how hard it is to land a spot on national TV. Even if it's selling stuffing. |
- HBO? Hell, no. -- Joel Keller -- 12/13/2004
For someone as supposedly pop culture literate as Joel, you'd think the man would at least invest in Home Box Office. But what started as a childhood of denial has now become a principled stand. |
- Interview With a Loggerhead Turtle: How Long is a Long Book? -- Josh Gardner -- 12/13/2004
Most of the time when we post articles, we're able to think of captions that at least partially reflect the piece that they represent. But this one? Not so much. Josh Gardner, er, talks to a loggerhead turtle in a swamp. About literature. Look, you're just going to have to read it. |
- Walking to Work in Azerbaijan -- Jonathan Griswold -- 12/13/2004
Take a walk through the provincial city of Barda, Azerbaijan with Jonathan Griswold, as he commutes to work to the Save The Children Microfinance office. First in a series. |
- The Least Meritocratic Profession Ever -- Garden Goblin -- 11/29/2004
Salt's got connections in all sorts of places--like the world of recent drama school graduates. In the first of a series of dispatches, our correspondent (who, due to the fact that he is in the cattiest profession ever, is hiding his true identity behind a garden decoration) reveals what it's like to whore yourself out to industry professionals while existing on a diet of muenster cheese. |
- Writer in a Jar: AJ Jacobs -- A.J. Jacobs -- 11/29/2004
AJ Jacobs, Senior Editor at Esquire, has a new book out: The Know It All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Guy in the World, for which he read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. (For anyone who’s wondering, that’s 44 million words, 33,000 pages, 75,000 articles, and 128 pounds of knowledge.) Luckily for Salt, A.J. had enough brain power left to answer questions from Catherine in this latest installment of Writer in a Jar, Salt’s series of email interviews with authors, in which we stick a writer in a jar like a bug and then look at them real close. |
- Photos, December 2004 -- Ed West -- 11/29/2004
Ed West is currently not speaking, since he's off at meditation retreat. But who needs words when you can take such pretty pictures? here, a selection of his photographs. |
- God(dess) of the Month: Athena -- Andrea Goldstein -- 11/29/2004
Andrea Goldstein, unlike most American high school seniors, is both a classics buff and a Civil War historian. She has a closet used clothing business on Ebay and thinks that despite his cheekbones, Brad Pitt never, ever, should have been involved in Troy. Here, in the first of a series, she highlights Salt's Classical God(dess) of the month: Athena. Pretty freaking hot. |
- The Griffin -- Tom Bowtell -- 11/29/2004
Salt Foreign Correspondent Tom Bowtell gives the magazine the first story in our ongoing series, Adult Fairytales. One should note that this doesn't mean, like, extra boobs or something. But you should read this tale regardless. |
- Found in Translation -- Catherine Price -- 11/15/2004
Studying Chinese is tricky enough, even without the help of a young man named Bao Zhong. Salt Editor Catherine Price shares adventures in Mandarin. |
- My Inbox -- Itamar Moses -- 11/15/2004
Itamar Moses knows better than to respond to those messages in his inbox asking him if he wants "bigger pens." Or does he? |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Jonathan Katz -- Jonathan Katz -- 11/15/2004
In high school, Catherine and Paul Grellong were obsessed with the Comedy Central show, "Dr. Katz," in which Jonathan Katz played an animated therapist who counseled stand-up comedians. Nine years later, Paul managed to track Katz down for an interview with Salt. If their high school alter-egos could see them now, both would be weeping soft, joyous tears. |
- (Re)Learning to Drive -- Leah Casner -- 11/15/2004
"It seemed like such a simple thing: to get a car and renew my driver's license. People did this all the time. Everyday folk, people without twelve credits in graduate school, bought cars, drove cars, parked cars. I had had driver's licenses in three states before, beginning at sixteen in Illinois, moving on to Maryland and finally New York." Oh, Leah . . . how wrong you were. |
- Man of the GRE -- Josh Gardner -- 11/15/2004
When Salt contributor Josh Gardner spent the summer in China, he found out about a disturbing new trend: students hiring people to put on disguises and take the GREs for them. Josh quickly saw the opportunity to raise some capital for Salt. Here, a slide show of his efforts. |
- Writer in a Jar: Mark Winegardner -- Terra McVoy -- 11/01/2004
Trapping any creature to examine it more closely is always a fascinating and rewarding endeavor, particularly when that creature is the often-elusive and highly secluded writer. Salt's Terra McVoy talks with Tallahassee-based novelist Mark Winegardner, whose book The Godfather Returns (the only actual sequel to Mario Puzo’s The Godfather) is due out November 16th, in an email interview about writing, culture, and cursing. |
- Consensual Adultery -- Nathanael Johnson -- 11/01/2004
So there he was, naked in a hotel room, lingerie-clad women offering him more than kisses, questions of the sanctity of marriage swirling in his mind . . . when Nathanael Johnson attended Fling, an erotic monthly party that moves between New York, Miami and Los Angeles, he began to question the prejudice against adultery. |
- Shorts -- Boomie Aglietti -- 10/31/2004
It's like, every time you read something by Boomie, you're dipping into a trick-or-treat bag. It's a weird trick-or-treat bag, filled as it is with metaphysical candies whose names probably include references to Kandinsky, but it's still tasty. |
- Part one of Eviscerations: Preservations -- Boomie Aglietti -- 10/31/2004
In the first in a series of fictional memoir essays each focused on different body fluids, med and law student Marlynn Wei begins at confessing our end. Are there some questions about our body, our thoughts, our ends that are more easily left unexamined, some feelings left unexplained, some words left unspoken, some realities left undiscovered? |
- Filler: The Eighth Installment -- Robby O'Connor -- 10/31/2004
Comic artist Robby O'Connor brings it on with another five strips, inspiring us to question what our marketable skills are, if we have any at all. Click here.
(To catch up on the last five strips, click here.) |
- My View of Stock-Market Work, Circa 1971 -- Richard Price -- 10/25/2004
Richard Price, a former portfolio manager, has worked in the stock market for forty years, most recently at TIAA-CREF, where he made over one billion dollars for teachers' retirement funds. Here, in an article from 1971 that he discovered recently while cleaning his closet, is a succinct summary of his view of stock market work. |
- Father in a Jar: An Interview with Richard Price -- Catherine Price -- 10/25/2004
Salt contributor and #1 Dad Richard Price bravely faced the challenges of opening, modifying and sending an email attachment to complete this interview with his sometimes editor and always daughter. Packed with paternal advice, sprinkled with inspiration, it makes her very proud. Think you know a dad (or mom) worthy of an interview? Send them our way! |
- Palpatine for President in 2004! -- Sander Cohan -- 10/25/2004
A Vote for Luke Skywalker is a Vote for Terrorism: Support Palpatine for President in 2004!
"In this time of interplanetary unrest, it would be folly to change leaders midstream," claims commentator Sander Cohan. "As we see the dawn of a Second Term, Emperor Palpatine is leading this administration to victory. Under his guidance, we will soon turn the corner against the rebel insurgency." |
- Rant: Flatbush Rage -- Amy Keyishian -- 10/18/2004
Amy Keyishian can deal with her boyfriend living in a different borough. She can deal with earning her keep as a freelance writer. But having to drive down Flatbush Avenue, this is something that makes her blood boil. And that's bad news for Junior's. |
- Writer in a Jar: Interview with Jason Reich -- Jason Reich -- 10/18/2004
Jason Reich is a two-time Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is also an occasional sketch and standup comedian whose writing has appeared in Newsday, Jest magazine and on BlackTable.com. Luckily for Salt, he took a break from hard-hitting news to answer questions from Catherine in the installment of the “Writers in a Jar” interview series. |
- Latin Lover -- Catherine Price -- 10/11/2004
After seven years of studying Latin and three years of teaching it, Catherine can't stop thinking about Latin. It's like a freakin' infection. |
- Dispatch: Sexorexia -- Kristin Craig -- 10/11/2004
Sex and the City might have technically ended last year, but the repercussions of its DVD are still being felt. Salt contributor Kristin Craig explores the aftershocks. |
- The New Paris -- Itamar Moses -- 10/11/2004
Itamar Moses is a man of dreams and lofty ambitions, a man seduced by the thought of pain au chocolat but paralyzed by the notion of cross-Atlantic travel. Here he poses the question: in order to go to Paris, is it really necessary to go to Paris? |
- Dispatch: New York City Nerd -- Andrea Goldstein -- 10/11/2004
For anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to go to high school at one of New York's elite private schools, here's a sneak peek into the life of Andrea Goldstein's life as a senior at Trinity. Forget homecoming dances and prom queens; think Ovid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And yeah, that's right, she's quoting Latin. |
- Filler: The Sixth Installment -- Robby O'Connor -- 10/11/2004
Robby O'Connor keeps the comics coming with the latest installment of Filler. Parties, parents, drug-dealing, unemployment . . . it's all here. Click here for slides. (To get context for what's been going on, click here). |
- Games to Play With Boys -- Desiree Burch -- 10/04/2004
I can’t help but feel terribly French sometimes. Not that I know enough about the French to use the brand to convey more than a vague, generalizing image, but I am an American, so I don’t really care. I take a long deep drag, and then a quick puff of a mild cigarette rolled with numbed fingertips. Having pulled off the sidewalk and onto the wall, the wandering city eyes roll on, passing over me like headlights over the landscapes of trees and windows, fabrics and stone. |
- Writers in a Jar: Interview with Peter Hyman -- Peter Hyman -- 10/04/2004
Peter Hyman, a former Vanity Fair, staffer, has written for The New York Times, The New York Observer, New York magazine and various national publications. The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life is his first book, and includes an essay called “Menage a Faux Pas” about his experience having a threesome with a couple he met on Craig’s List. Here, in an interview with Catherine for Salt’s “Writers in a Jar” interview series, Peter answers questions about his writing, his life, and his opinion on pleated pants. |
- Assorted Photographs -- Vinit Desai -- 10/04/2004
Salt contributor Vinit Desai shares another round of photographs from adventures in Puerto Rico, Costa Rico, and good old California. Would you believe that this man is also in business school? Click here for slides. |
- Rant: The Matrix Sucks -- L ongus -- 09/27/2004
You know how, like, a week ago, Alex Rubens went off on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Well, in this second installment of salty rants about out-of-date movies, contributor Longus gets all hot and bothered by the Matrix. And not in a good way, either. |
- Hijab -- Jill Schnoebelen -- 09/27/2004
Writer Jill Schnoebelen lived in Egypt for over a year and has been doing research in Malaysia for the past nine months. Here for Salt, she re-evaluates her assumptions about the Islamic headscarf based on conversations, observations and her own experience wearing the scarf. |
- novel excerpt -- Will Heinrich -- 09/20/2004
Salt Contributing Editor Will Heinrich just had a piece of fiction published on nerve.com, which you should read (it, unlike many other short stories, features a mustache-wearing penis). He also just won a 2004 PEN/Robert Bingham fellowship and his novel, The King's Evil, was published by Scribner in 2003. Check him out. |
- Professional Day -- Kristin Craig -- 09/20/2004
Correspondent Kristin Craig once thought her choice of career would be as easy as typing her interests into an Apple 2GS. 20 years later, she's been a ski instructor, a Pottery Barn saleswoman, a campaign worker and a teacher, and has spent summers biking across the United States . . . twice. Unfortunately, though, she's still confused. |
- Protest -- Vinit Desai -- 09/20/2004
Vinit Desai likes to spice up his non-grad school life with photography. Here, he shares some photos he took at a protest in San Francisco. |
- Filler: The Fifth Installment -- Robby O'Connor -- 09/20/2004
Comic artist Robby O'Connor keeps it coming with this fifth installment of Filler, which picks up where his last strip left off--with a drug-dealing internship gone awry. Click here for slides. (Confused? Feeling lost about the plotline? Wondering why Simon's spending his summer internship selling pot? Catch up with the last installment here.) |
- Rant: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Alex Rubens -- 09/13/2004
Wow. Alex Rubens sure doesn't like this childhood classic! In the first of Salt's rants, M. Rubens proclaims that "The best kind of kid’s movie is the kind you can watch years later and still get something out of it. And when I say 'get something out of it,' I don’t mean the meaningless musical moralizing of a bunch of discolored midgets." Come on, Alex. Tell us what you really feel. |
- what she has been waiting for -- Josh Sohn -- 09/13/2004
Josh Sohn brings us one of Salt's first pieces of fiction. "Man finds Woman. On Bowery. Woman sings and flips and spins and clucks. Man watches Woman carefully. Woman’s voice and body climb all over everything and Man wonders how, not why. Woman grins. Something has made her notice Man watching her from where he is sitting. Something has broken her concentration." Read on. |
- Dispatch from Mt. Everest #5: Top of the World, Ma! -- Lincoln Else -- 09/13/2004
Correspondent Lincoln Else writes a final update from his Mt. Everest adventure, an accomplishment he describes thus:
"Tom and Nawang reached the summit! Everest has now officially been climbed by a Nepali amputee and another white guy!" Read on for more details.
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- Slides from Dali, China -- Catherine Price -- 09/13/2004
On a 2002 trip to China, Catherine spent a week and a half traveling in Yunnan Province. One of her favorite stops was Dali, a small town several miles from Erhai Hu (Ear-Shaped Lake). On an afternoon adventure, she took a bus to the lake, hopped on a horse cart, started chatting with the driver and got invited to dinner with his family. She took a series of portraits. Click here for slides. |
- Lies I Told My Boss -- Liz Davis -- 09/06/2004
Liz Davis is an employee who knows the power a good google search has to spice up the workday. We here at Salt endorse her whole-heartedly as a creative, resourceful woman dedicated to her job--or, perhaps more accurately, to avoiding it. Need suggestions on how to live her life? She'll answer your emails from her desk. |
- The L.A. Chronicles -- Boomie Aglietti -- 09/06/2004
"The money hasn’t changed me; it’s changed my entourage. My 'people' now include two agents, four publicity reps, one gay hairdresser, one not gay hairdresser—ungay?—and a jellybean assortment of individuals who refer to themselves only as 'the inner circle.'" Such is the life of Salt correspondent Boomie Aglietti, whose last name Catherine has been mispronouncing for the past seven years. |
- Red China -- Catherine Price -- 08/30/2004
Catherine got her period for the first time when she was twelve, on a family trip to China. She then broke out in hives and woke up on a moving train, as her parents played cards and drank Johnny Walker Black in a car without a working bathroom. |
- An American Pastime -- Kate Daloz -- 08/30/2004
Writer Kate Daloz teaches Adult Basic Education classes at LaGuardia Community College, in Long Island City, Queens. In addition to helping recent immigrants master English, Kate is responsible for helping her students to acclimatize and understand American culture. What better than an in-class game of baseball? |
- About the Wedding Night -- Heidi Vogt -- 08/30/2004
Contributing Editor and writer Heidi Vogt spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa before returning to America to work in New York City. Here, she writes about Yabirgi, a young woman she met when she was a volunteer, and asks the quetsion: what is it like to attend your own husband's wedding? |
- Dispatch from Mt. Everest #3: Everest ER -- Lincoln Else -- 08/30/2004
In his third update from Mt. Everest Base Camp, Lincoln tells the story of Joe, a teacher from New Jersey, whose body decided that climbing Everest was an exceptionally bad idea. After reaching Camp 2 at around 21,000 feet, Joe’s lungs said, affectionately, “Screw this” and started filling with fluid. The phenomenon is known as pulmonary edema and can happen to anyone at high altitude. At first it just makes you feel weak, but as the condition worsens you get less and less oxygen, basically drowning. "No really, Mom," insists Lincoln, "this is a safe sport. I swear. |
- Our Catalogue of New Releases -- Itamar Moses -- 08/30/2004
Norton-Mifflin-Giroux is proud to present its roster of exciting new titles for the upcoming publishing season, reported here by Itamar. Salt Magazine is very well-connected. |
- Bullet Points -- Liz Aab -- 08/23/2004
One of Salt's goals is to give insight into interesting careers and life experiences through "dispatches" from the people living them. Here, investment banker Liz Aab comments on her current life through the lingua franca of the Power Point generation: bullet points. |
- Dispatch from Mt. Everest #2: Mt. Irony -- Lincoln Else -- 08/23/2004
Moments after emailing everyone last month from Namche, the largest village on the approach to Mt Everest, the power went out. No big surprise for Nepal. After packing up his laptop, Lincoln started back across town to bed. It was pitch black out, and after tripping over a yak, he realized he was in trouble. Luckily, he had the laptop. |
- Angst-Ridden Teenage Poetry -- Tom Bowtell -- 08/23/2004
Now a London-based writer and playwright (not to mention Salt's premier British correspondent), Tom Bowtell went through some rough teenage days. On the roughest, he wrote poetry. Here, a sampling, and an open call to all others whose teenage years produced heartfelt, melodramatic verse, to share their masterpieces with the world. |
- Dispatch from Mt. Everest: Let the Games Begin -- Lincoln Else -- 08/16/2004
Last spring Lincoln was asked to join an expedition to climb Mount Everest as a Base Camp manager and photographer. With nothing better to do, he hopped on board and spent two months in Nepal losing twenty pounds and getting really cold. He wasn't climbing the mountain himself; he was documenting other people's attempts. This is his first update from Everest Base Camp. |
- Rowena -- Boomie Aglietti -- 08/16/2004
It's not that Boomie Aglietti doesn't warrant introduction, but rather that it's hard to give him one. Here, a piece from his one-man show, "Boomie Aglietti is Flammable." Stay tuned for an audio version. For now, here's the written word. |
- Fur on Fur: Le Chien Does Dogs With Style -- Catherine Price -- 08/16/2004
When Catherine wandered into le Chien one sunny afternoon, she found herself in what Le Chien’s owner, Lisa Gilford, describes on her website as “a boutique and gem salon for dogs.” She had stumbled into the world of New York’s super-rich, in which a single dog coat cost as much as her entire spring wardrobe and people paid more money to have their poodles’ toenails painted than she does for a week’s worth of groceries. |
- Dispatch: The (Mis)Adventures of a Breckinridge Ski Instructor -- Kristin Craig -- 08/16/2004
Ah, Kristin Craig. Currently hard at work for Teach for America, Kristin has had stints as a pizza delivery girl, pottery barn employee, and election campaign worker. When scanning through wanted ads on Craigslist in NYC, she was heard saying, "$50 an hour for being a personal masseuse? Do you think that sounds sketchy?" Here, she gives Salt a dispatch about her life as a ski instructor. |
- Resume of My Dating Life -- Kiki Bailey -- 08/09/2004
Contributor Kiki Bailey knows what it takes to write a successful resume. Organized, to the point, complete with clove cigarettes and a first lesbian kiss. Click here. |
- Temping for Fun -- Amy Granger -- 08/09/2004
When contributor Amy Granger takes a temp job at a tabloid magazine, she expects a week of entertainment gossip and celebrity sleaze. But when a pile of envelopes arrives on her desk with instructions to "randomly select" a crossword puzzle winner, she realizes that she's in deeper, much deeper, than she thought. |
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