Students of Lisa Phillips’ fall 2015 Literature of Journalism class were asked to interview everyday working people about their jobs, and frame the first-person commentaries […]
Literature of Journalism
Students of Lisa Phillips’ fall 2015 Literature of Journalism class were asked to interview everyday working people about their jobs, and frame the first-person commentaries […]
I ran out the door into the summer night, the smell of gasoline reeking from our ’97 Toyota Corolla. My father had stopped to work […]
What does family mean to you? This was the question asked to the students of the Spring 2011 Literature of Journalism Class. In response, the […]
“Another letter came for you in the mail today, Malcolm,” momma said. “It’s your father again.” This had been the fifth letter I received in […]
We left her standing at the curb. As we drove away, my mother cried and stared at the shrinking shape of my sister in the […]
Oh, God. Did I really just do that? Did I really just hand in a job application at McDonald’s? For a moment I picture myself […]
Anthony Chanza sits in his apartment on Greene Avenue in Ridgewood, on a February afternoon. His parents and brother are out. He has class in […]
The phone rang twice. “I really didn’t want to do this over the phone.” “What mom? What’s wrong?” Nicole Porter asked. “I was going to […]