Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

It was a long summer’s evening in Colorado Springs, July 03, 1975. The air was warm and still, radiating through my chest and embracing my tanned arms and legs. Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” and Rod Stewart’s “Maggie Mae” were spinning on the AM station of my friend Paul’s Earl Schrieb freshly-painted turquoise-blue Karmann Ghia. “When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand…” I felt accomplished to have memorized each song and with a convincing smile confidently sang the…

Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart…

My iPhone 's speakers blared out, Brendan Urie 's voice filling every inch of my small bedroom. The bright light flashed, illuminating the dark room. I roll over to my side and without looking grabbed my phone and slid the green answer button. With a heavy sigh, I pulled the device up to my ear. "Go," I muttered sleepily. "Journey," Axel 's was rushed through the phone, "Journey, Journey, Journey." "Axel?" I asked. I sat up in my bed, the covers rushing around me like disturbed ocean waves. My…

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Institute in Alabama Up from Slavery (1901), an autobiography Frank Norris (1870-1902) The Octopus (1901), dealing with the raising of wheat in California and the struggles of the ranchers against the railroad Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) Sister Carrie (1900) Jennie Gerhardt (1911) The Financier (1912) The Titan (1914) The Stoic (1947) The Genius (1915) An American Tragedy ( 1925) Jack…