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From Our Pages: “Dale Flynn’s Blood,” memoir by D. J. Lee.

by broadstreetmag on Sep 15, 2017 • No Comments

Trouble next door. “I pushed away and we stood in the soft wet dirt of the shoulder, staring at one another. Suddenly, he lunged forward …” D. J. Lee’s searing memoir of bullying, aspiration, and teenaged hormones appeared in BROAD STREET’s “Bedeviled” issue in winter/spring 2015. It has been praised for...

Art / creativity / truth

Truth Teller Spotlight: Lee Strasburger, Artist.

by broadstreetmag on Aug 21, 2017 • No Comments

“To express myself in that ‘calling moment’ is to give my energy in its purest, most positive form….” Lee Strasburger is a painter, photographer, and textile artist who has mounted one-person shows in Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her work has also been featured in group shows all...

creativity / illness / poetry / Writing

Celebrating the Poetry of Marylen Grigas.

by broadstreetmag on Aug 7, 2017 • No Comments

We at BROAD STREET were honored to publish some of the last work by beloved poet Marylen Grigas, who died in February 2017. Each one was illustrated by her niece, Riley McAlpine-Berthold, with whom Marylen had a remarkable collaborative relationship. We invite you to read about her struggles with cancer, the ironic...

memoir / psychology / religion / sex

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

by broadstreetmag on Feb 7, 2017 • 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,...

poetry / sex / travel

Share This Poem: “Geodesy,” by Marya Hornbacher.

by broadstreetmag on Feb 1, 2017 • No Comments

Journey across the map of the beloved’s body in this prose poem by best-selling memoirist Marya Hornbacher. You’ll find a specially formatted broadside here, or scroll down for the large-print version … —— Marya Hornbacher is the author of several books, including Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, Madness:...

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

by broadstreetmag on Oct 11, 2016 • 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...

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From Our Pages: “Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon,” by Glenn H. Shepard, Jr.

by broadstreetmag on Sep 10, 2017 • No Comments

Presenting a popular feature from our print issue 2.1, “Bedeviled”: We invite you to go deep into the Amazon and dig into the snuff pots with intrepid ethnobotanist and ethnographer Glenn H. Shepard, Jr. You’ll learn about the arcane culture of altered states and finish off with a long hard dose of ayahuasca, courtesy of BROAD STREET. Click...

belles lettres / creativity / essays / working / Writing

What writers will do to keep paper and pen together …

by broadstreetmag on Sep 7, 2017 • No Comments

This month, we celebrate the publication of From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux. The book is a veritable cornucopia of odd true tales about zany jobs that writers do to keep the ink flowing. And it happens to feature some of Broad Street‘s authors. The editors, Thomas E. Kennedy (“Prix Fixe,” from our...

creativity / Interview / publishing / truth / Writing

Truth Teller Spotlight: Caitlin Hamilton Summie.

by broadstreetmag on Aug 31, 2017 • No Comments

“We know that small press publicity is trench warfare …” After decades in publishing, where she carved out a niche as one of the industry’s top publicists and marketing strategists, Caitlin Hamilton Summie has just brought out her own first story collection, To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts, with Fomite Press. The book represents twenty-five years’ worth of story writing,...

Art / History / photography / travel

“The Amazing Kolb Brothers of Grand Canyon,” by Roger Naylor.

by broadstreetmag on Aug 25, 2017 • No Comments

“Photographers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb were daredevil adventurers … equal parts artist and athlete, a dizzying combination that pushed them toward increasingly creative ways to risk their necks.” Broad Street proudly presents an excerpt from Roger Naylor’s latest book, in which the author digs into the thrilling tale of Ellsworth and Emery Kolb. In the...

Culture / memoir / travel

Online Exclusive: “El Rosario Road: The spell of ordinary spectacle.” By Douglas Haynes.

by broadstreetmag on Aug 17, 2017 • No Comments

“The river swells. A white goose waddles out from a farmyard to ride the rapids, then disembarks and does it again. In a head-to-toe navy slicker and tall rubber boots, an ice cream man pushes his cart through the whitecaps. His thumb rings a bell …” El Rosario Road Splay-leafed palms spike the fencerows....

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