Browsing All Posts By Travis American
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Columns
Street Writer: Morningside Drive
Writing is misery. Thank god for the egotism and obsession that make it possible.
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Columns
Street Writer: Orchard Street
The Lower East Side begs you to take its authenticity seriously, but does the authentic need to beg?
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Columns
Street Writer: 26th Street
Bellevue, communism, forgotten poets, and zero calorie organic vegan whiskey. Travis digs up the secrets of 26th Street.
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Columns
Street Writer: MacDougal Street
Travis sets out to write a street-by-street psychogeography of Manhattan. First up, Greenwich Village's MacDougal St.
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Shrapnel
The Best of Blunderbuss Search Terms
"best internal swallow ever." "porta reican girls wereing swimsuit." The roads that brought you to Blunderbuss are strange indeed.
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Shrapnel
The Great “Nordic” Novel: A Children’s Treasury of Uncomfortable Gatsbyisms
Nick Carraway wants it both ways. Rich WASPs are repugnant, and the only folks who matter. Travis catalogs his hypocrisies.
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Essays
Get Rude: In Praise of Obnoxious and Annoying Activism
As student protesters up at Dartmouth College are proving, sometimes you need to get impolite to provoke an adult conversation.
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Art
Islands Apart: An Interview with Artist Jessica Feldman
Manhattan has pushed its undesirables to the tiny islands that surround it. Last fall, Jessica Feldman brought them back home.
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