J.G.C. Wise (formerly Josh Cacopardo) has been on staff with The Curator since 2009, and also writes occasionally for GenerationQ. His first literary love was poetry, which gave way to songwriting and
One Sunday last fall, a friend was gathering people for dinner and asked me if I
wanted to join. I respectfully declined, but this particular friend is not so
easily rebuffed. He wanted
Ever since the institution began, and certainly since the 1970s, the American
death penalty has been an object of insatiable scrutiny in the criminal justice
system of the West. Europe is appalled that
Before they became all the rage amongst sixth-graders, I wanted to write a story
about vampires. I rode a wave of inspiration for about fifteen minutes before
abandoning my project to the towering
There was a time in my life when I regularly exercised a very reckless lack of
judgment. During that time, I decided that the most satisfying future I could
pursue would be in
My girlfriend and I recently decided that we should take a page from the English
Christmas book and say “Happy Christmas” instead of “Merry Christmas”. Not only
does it sound quainter and more