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Issue 15: Americana, pt. II

August 2014

A Gentleman’s Guide to Surviving North by Northwest

Erika Schmidt·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
So you’re on the run. The bad news: you’re being pursued by both international spies and by the American police.... Read More

And Not to Yield

Summer Block·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
illustration by Brianna AshbyThree escaped convicts and a young man who claims to have sold his soul to the Devil... Read More
American Movie | art by Brianna Ashby

But That’s What Happened, Man.

Tess Lynch·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
When I first saw American Movie, I was working at a vintage clothing store and blithely guzzling vodka sodas until four in the morning; I had recently graduated from college and had plenty of time to land myself in a 30 Under 30 list or apply to graduate school. There were no failures yet, only promise. Read More

Home is Where I Wanna Be

Andrew Root·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
In An American Tail, America takes on a mythic energy; it is the Golden Fleece, the Holy Grail and armour of Achilles. It is fulfillment, deliverance from trial, protection from evil. It is happiness and it is home. Read More

I’ve Never Been Much Good

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
(Gun Crazy, d. Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) My name is a flag. Big things. I was born inside a parade,... Read More

It’s Not Personal

Katie Zimolzak·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
illustration by Sophia Foster-Dimino “…only a half dozen Puritan millionaires stood on the wharf in the wind colder than the... Read More
Jaws (1975) | art by Brianna Ashby

It’s Only An Island If You Look At It From The Water

Elizabeth Cantwell·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around. Read More

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Brianna Ashby·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
Memory is a gift that allows us to carry pieces of the ones we love with us, wherever we go. Read More
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) | art by Brianna Ashby

We’ll Jump and We’ll See

Chad Perman·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
Joe Versus the Volcano is a film that lives almost entirely in its own world, asking Big Questions about Big Things—but its heart is large, and its magic deep. Read More

What Happened to You is Freak Luck

Bebe Ballroom·
Issue 15: Americana, pt. II
o one ever told me how beautiful Sylvester Stallone was in 1976. Sunken-in eyes, almost able to make out the... Read More

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