Journal of the Plague Years
Susan Zakin, Lucian K. Truscott IV, The Coop Scoop, Gene Weingarten, JP Sottile, Lori Jakiela, Deanne Stillman, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Brian Cullman, Lisa Alvarez, Dave Newman, Joshua Garberg, Jamil BakarLiterary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.
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One of the most overused lines is Freud’s question: “What do women want?” (Men have fewer excuses these days for not knowing so it’s fallen off a bit.) It’s time for a more relevant riff: “What do Americans want?” Specifically, what do Amer...
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Editor of Journal of the Plague Years (www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink.) Reporter, columnist, and essayist for magazines including GQ, Vogue, Salon.
I am a writer who has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
Marc Cooper is an award winning writer, journalist and professor.
Two-time Pulitzer prizewinning feature writer. Intellectual vulgarian. College dropout. Harvard alumnus (long story). Author of six books. Secretly shy smart-ass. Your employee.
I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.
Writer, teacher, mother, human
Deanne Stillman's books include Twentynine Palms, which Hunter Thompson called "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer. For info about all, see https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/2024/11/01/deanne-stillman/.
And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all.
Brian Cullman is west village editor of the Journal of the Plague Years. He has written for The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Details, Creem, The Village Voice and other papers. He has 3 solo albums on Sunnyside Records.
Lisa Alvarez teaches community college and co-directs the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley. Her collection, "Some Final Beauty and Other Stories," will be published in 2025 by the University of Nevada Press.
Dave Newman writes books and teaches college.
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