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It’s here!! Our new issue, “Small Things, Partial Cures,” hits the street and the web June 13. Sample some of the contents here now.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 12, 2018 • No Comments

Issue 3.1, “Small Things, Partial Cures,” hits hard … Our latest issue (super-sized) features great new work by Sherod Santos, Leslie Stainton, Walter Cummins, Sara Talpos, Peter Grandbois, Valley Haggard, Staci Mercado, Mark Wyatt, Diana Smith Bolton, Kathleen de Azevedo, Gunver Hasselbalch, and many more writers and visual artists...

Art / creativity / Interview

From Our Pages: “Forget about Everything Else”—an interview with TyRuben Ellingson, cinematic art director and designer.

by broadstreetmag on May 16, 2018 • No Comments

“If a film is working, you’re forgetting about everything else….” TyRuben Ellingson is responsible for your dreams. As a cinematic visual effects art director and conceptual designer, he creates the monsters and galaxies and eerily beautiful landscapes through which your imagination roams in the flickering light of a movie...

literature / poetry / sex

Share This Poem: “We Did It,” by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Robert Alter. From Issue 1.1, “Dangerous Territory.”

by broadstreetmag on Apr 11, 2018 • No Comments

Yehuda Amichai’s poem “We Did It” is among his best known and most celebrated; it inspired Stuart Dybek’s much-anthologized story “We Didn’t.” In Broad Street’s debut issue, Robert Alter, the renowned scholar and translator of Hebrew literature (including several books of the Bible), presented nine new translations and an introduction explaining...

childhood / memoir / News / politics / race

From Our Pages: “The Jersey in Me,” by Alan Cheuse.

by broadstreetmag on Jan 25, 2018 • No Comments

A bridge closes and a writer’s gorge rises. “I’ve learned from painful experience that the heat of Jersey anger never goes out, not when stoked by some unkind word or gesture from stranger or supposed friend. Or a traffic incident.” The bridge in question, which is the nation’s busiest. Read about...

Art / creativity / Culture / Interview / memoir / psychology / religion / Writing

Our Interview with Jeanette Winterson: “It’s Always Some Battle …”

by broadstreetmag on Jan 21, 2018 • No Comments

“I didn’t intend to write a memoir. I was on a personal search for my biological mother, which I hadn’t intended to do either. You know what it’s like, the big things in life you never plan: you micromanage everything, and then the big things come along, and you never...

creativity / editing / publishing

Online Exclusive: “Two Hats at Once: A Book Publicist Turns Writer (and Markets Her Own Book Too),” by Caitlin Hamilton Summie.

by broadstreetmag on Oct 4, 2017 • No Comments

“I have always believed in marketing a book for its full life, not for a season or a set time period. The one thing I have learned about marketing is that it can be endless.” Caitlin designed her own ads for email blasts such as this one. Sometimes an author is...

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creativity / Interview / love / Writing

Truth Teller Spotlight Interview: Al Landwehr, author of “‘The Dancing Horologist’ and Ten Other Love Stories.”

by broadstreetmag on Jun 11, 2018 • No Comments

“Put simply, a good story helps prepare the reader for reality. If all that sounds saintly, that’s another kind of distortion.” For over forty years, Al Landwehr has written fiction featured in publications that range from slick mass-market magazines to literary journals: Playboy, Redbook, New Letters, The Chariton Review, and Negative Capability, among...

cultural studies / feminism / pop culture / sex

Pop Culture Pulse: Yes, “Sex and the City” is 20 years old … and here are a few thoughts about that.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 10, 2018 • No Comments

From liberal to conservative, fun-and-fluffy features to cultural studies and a star’s campaign for governor: We’ve collected links to features from slick magazines, small web publishers, and assorted fans and critics. Pour yourself a Cosmo and start clicking. Perhaps you’ve heard? The cultural juggernaut known as Sex and the City — a TV series and two follow-up films — turned...

Art / creativity / Culture / Interview / pop culture

From Our Pages: Interview with 2012 Tony-winning Costume Designer Paloma Young.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 8, 2018 • No Comments

“Our Crazy Beautiful Poetic World” Paloma Young won a Tony Award for the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher in 2012. For our “Hunt, Gather” issue, she and associate editor Matthew Phipps discussed her design process, her inspiration, and (of course) her budget. At the time, she was working on a production of The Tempest....

memoir / psychology / religion / sex

From Our Pages: “Chastity Belt Included,” a memoir by Ramsey Hootman.

by broadstreetmag on May 27, 2018 • No Comments

BROAD STREET presents the amazing true tale of a young woman who guarded her virginity “for religious reasons,” only to find herself completely flummoxed on her wedding night. It was not a matter of technique, nor of sympathy on her husband’s part … Mother Nature had already put a mysterious, painful guard in place. ...

creativity / cultural studies / Culture / current events / History / Writing

Breaking News: Contributor Paisley Rekdal’s new book, “The Broken Country,” evaluates Vietnam’s legacy. Paisley will appear at Chautauqua in August–details below!

by broadstreetmag on May 12, 2018 • No Comments

One of our most widely beloved contributors, prolific poet and nonfiction writer Paisley Rekdal, has not only published another book (and a great one!) but also scheduled a remarkable event at the Chautauqua Institution for this August–one of no doubt *broad* appeal. The book is The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime,...

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