Rewriting Paradigms

It’s been a rough year for all of us, and as we head into what used to be the holiday season for most of us, I’m sending a wish list from the upside down. 1. Please resign. I know you really thought you wanted to be president, but do you honestly think it has worked out? You’re on the edge of impeachment, and your precious Ivanka and Jared (He’s her husband in case you don’t remember.) may not be around to advise you much because they have to fight this lawsuit over those all

Today’s real news reads like fiction, and both the satire of an Andy Borowitz headline and a Seth Meyers “Closer Look” segment read and sound like real news. Once again, the raw but beautifully told truths of the “New Journalism” of the past seem painfully appropriate for documenting the present. In the fall of 1976, I was reeling from my father’s sudden death that past spring and experiencing the throes of true independence as a freshman at Boston University. One of the many