Joshua John Mackin is a public school teacher in New York City. More of his work can be read at <a href="http://www.signsandmarvels.com">signsandmarvels.com.
This piece was first published in 2013.
There is this whiskey bar around the corner from where we live. They sell
oysters, too. It’s the kind of place that mines a very
This piece was originally published in 2013.
There we were a few months in—hunched on the sheets with our knees crushed up
beneath our chins, covers flung out to make a malformed
Some friends who used to live in Brooklyn drove in last week and we all thought
it would be fun to see what we could see in the penumbras emanating from
Corporate Art
It is strange that we come at it so sideways, so often. Brutal asides
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxmn8Hflhhs] in Family Guy, the brushed steel
gallows humor of stand-up [http://www.
One of Dickens’ antagonists, Ralph Nickelby, boasts he is a man never moved by a
pretty face, for he always sees the grinning skull beneath. It’s a vision whose
austerity is meant
