The Many Shades of Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs won’t let me watch him bum cigarettes. We’ve spoken for hours—about what it was like to grow up…
Rick Harrison
Rick Harrison is a graduate journalism student at New York University an an editorial associate at The Independent. His work has appeared in Newsday, Our Town, and The West Side Spirit.
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A long time ago, in a film school far, far away (from NYU), a young man with big dreams and…
The Miller’s Daughter
Rebecca Miller needs to recharge. Well, her phone at least. Plugged into an ancient socket behind me and perched on…
Spice Market
I am white and alone in a darkened room at night with over four hundred Dominicans in New York City….
Virgin’s Mother Earth
Sophia, three years old, a moppet sprouting wavy dark brown hair, tall as my leg, naked, and tired of her…