A Phan's Notes: the Professional Ballplayer
Justin St. Germain
As I write this, on a Friday afternoon in early August, the Phillies are losing 7-2 in Washington, and... more
As I write this, on a Friday afternoon in early August, the Phillies are losing 7-2 in Washington, and... more
As I write this, just past noon on the Fourth of July, the Phillies are losing to the Pirates 2-1 in the bottom of the... more
The Phillies recently came to Phoenix, the closest pro baseball city to me, for a four-game set on Mother’s... more
As I write this, nearly a month into the season, my beloved Phillies flounder in third place. Even that dubious... more
I’ve resolved this baseball season to watch every game played by my favorite team, the... more
A 400-page collection of poems in fours sections: Nicki Minaj Songs, Bob Dylan Songs, Elliott Smith Songs, and 90s Riot Grrrls Songs.
FOUR NEW ESSAYS BY CHLOE CALDWELL! Plus the original essays that made you fall in love with Chloe!
Saul Stories is a linked collection that explores the relationships between a forty-year-old female artist, her teenaged daughter, and her daughter's friends. With ferocious realism, the book interrogates how children of differing classes and races are treated in the U.S., and the salacious and skeptical ways the current culture views cross-generational friendships. But most potently—in narratives taking place in Denny's and movie theatres and living rooms and cars—Saul Stories wonders what it means to be a woman and an artist and a mother, all at once.