Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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July 20, 2016

La Fin du Monde at Bristol Bar

By Brian Michael Murphy

There was a bar called Bristol. On the corner of 4th and Summit, all brick with a couple window walls, a former speakeasy back in the Prohibition days, when the […]

January 12, 2016

No Father to His Style

By Brian Michael Murphy

On the Biz Markie’s smash hit “Just a Friend,” which I remember watching and singing along with on The Box, he sings a pleading, straining chorus over literally perfect music. […]

December 10, 2014

Earl Sweatshirt’s Bookshelf, and Time

By Brian Michael Murphy

Bookshelves do funny things to time. In a recent clip, rapper Earl Sweatshirt lets FADER TV tour his Hollywood bachelor pad. In a Cribs send-up, he guides the camera through […]

May 31, 2010

Concentrate and Ask Again

By Elizabeth Ames Staudt

The Internet is gigantic! It’s a wonder you’ve wandered here at all. As a thanks, please accept this dancing bear (via woolgathering & miscellany):