Molly Brodak’s Bandit is a memoir and a re-telling of a girlhood shaken and shaped by the tangled presence of her father Joseph Brodak, a man who is a Holocaust survivor, a Polish immigrant, a Detroit autoworker, a Vietnam veteran, a husband, a gambler, a manipulator, a con-man and a convicted small time Michigan bank robber known as the “Mario Brothers Bandit.”...
“Yes, I deserve a spring—I owe nobody nothing.”
—Virginia Woolf
Someone on Facebook says, “Women just hate each other. It’s biological.”
A family member clai...
“Men always said it that way -- I’ve ruined you. I couldn’t explain, but no, I did not feel ruined.”
–The Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee
Historical fi...
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia's exhibition The First 21: Working Artist Project, currently on view through April 19, is an act of transparency for...
Rujeko Hockley, Curator of the Brooklyn Museum. Image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum.
“I am a mere simpleton, is a real person,” says writer Alice Notley in a ...
