Published inKyle’s CommonplaceTa-Nehisi Coates, “My President Was Black,” The AtlanticWhat Obama was able to offer white America is something very few African Americans could — trust. The vast majority of us are, necessarily…Dec 30, 2016Dec 30, 2016
Published inKyle’s CommonplaceZadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair,” The New York Review of BooksThe art of midlife is surely always cloudier than the art of youth, as life itself gets cloudier. But it would be disingenuous to pretend…Dec 16, 2016Dec 16, 2016
Published inKyle’s CommonplaceGeorge Saunders, “My Writing Education: A Time Line,” The New YorkerOn a visit to Syracuse, I hear Toby saying goodbye to one of his sons. “Goodbye, dear,” he says.Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016
Published inKyle’s CommonplaceSylvan Esso, Genius comment on “Hey Mami”:“But our hero, she don’t know the gravity she holds”Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016
Published inKyle’s CommonplaceTa-Nehisi Coates, “Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?,” The Atlantic:… Our current sprawling megapolis of prisons was a bipartisan achievement. Obamacare was not. Sometimes the moral course lies within the…Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016
Published inKyle’s CommonplaceRyan Dombal, “True Myth: A Conversation with Sufjan Stevens,” Pitchfork:Hanging from scaffolding on an in-progress luxury condo near Sufjan Stevens’ office studio in Brooklyn, a huge sign promises to “preserve…Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016
Published inKyle’s CommonplaceConnie Bruck, “Hillary the Pol,” New Yorker, May 30, 1994:Betsey Wright told me that Hillary had, on occasion, confided her personal troubles to her. “Hillary can separate personal emotions from…Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016
THERE’S FREE ICE CREAMFifty Licks food truck. They have a store. It’s delicious. The butterscotch has real scotch. This place is magical.Sep 11, 2015Sep 11, 2015
