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The Treasure Maps of Pamela Singh
Pamela Singh, Treasure Maps 009, 2014. Long before Kim Kardashian’s Selfish—before the selfie was technologically feasible, let alone a generation’s preferred form of self-expression—Pamela Singh was...
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Sex, Lies, and Audiotape
Republishing Talk, fifty years later. The author with her tape recorder. Photos: James Dugdale Even before its publication, my book Talk’s salacious reputation preceded it: a highly respected editor...
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Letter from Shanghai
How a scandal about a Chinese name has been received in China. This past February, the Chinese media widely announced that the Chinese poet Biqujibu, an ethnic Yi from western Sichuan, had been...
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The Ballad of the Gossip Hangover
Toledo Street Scandal, 1895. A few weeks ago, I woke up one day feeling awful. I inventoried my symptoms. I didn’t seem to be getting sick. I hadn’t had too much to drink. Was it food poisoning? No—the...
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Lou and His Dream-making Machine
Pearlman, center, with the finalists from O-Town. Lou Pearlman, the slippery impresario behind the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, O-Town, LFO, Aaron Carter, and about a half dozen other agreeably vacuous...
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A Very Sticks Angelica Christmas
Michael DeForge’s short-story series Lose has been nominated for or has won every major comics award, including the Eisner and Ignatz awards. His illustrations have been published in the New York...
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Pandora in Blue Jeans
Grace Metalious. Photo: Larry Smith. The photograph captioned “Pandora in Blue Jeans” is one of the most widely circulated portraits of a woman in history. Like most people, I first saw it on the back...
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Staff Picks: Sapphics, Scandals, and Skies
Richardson Bay as seen from Ring Mountain, Tiburon, California. Photo: Frank Schulenburg (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)). In the May issue of Harper’s, Joe Kloc tells a...
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