Jason Carney’s debut memoir, Starve the Vulture is a book even the most avid haters of memoir could love.
Review: Starve the Vulture by Jason Carney
2015 Theme Issue Announced: Guilty Pleasures and Vices
What do you do when no one is looking? What do you have hidden in your desk drawer at work?
Can You Spell Podcast? Hippocampus Gets Some Buzz in Early 2015 — notes from the editor
…in my quest to get involved locally, I represented Hippocampus Magazine and participated in The Triangle’s Grown-up Spelling Bee
The Only Child by Jayne Martin
“Terminal” was the word the doctors used, a term my then 19-year-old mind could not attach – refused to attach – to the often fraught, single mother…
Makin’ Dirty Dishes by Jody Keisner
His picture didn’t interest me… What I fell for instantly was the sexiness that oozed from his words.
Smoking Dreams by George Dila
I have not quit. I have made no such bold, unequivocal commitment. That I have not smoked in twenty-five years does not mean that I will never smoke another one.
Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriend on Facebook by Amanda Miska
She is beautiful—like, princess-of-some-obscure-country beautiful or my-dad-is-a-B-list-celebrity-and-my-mom’s-a-performance-artist beautiful.
Cow Love (L’amour vache) by Dale Roche
I wanted to sit outside and sneak a smoke. I was sneaking smokes again, which is pretty silly, since you smoke like a fiend…
Wakefield by Doug Thiele
It was my yearly escape; absentminded travel, hunting old books and indelible images of Virginiana.
A Love Letter to Sarah by Ryan Rydzewski
I was slick and sandy and sweating a rotten tropical sweat, trying to put sharks and jellyfish out of my mind as we waded in the piss-warm water.
