It wouldn’t be New York without a Crisis
My first two weeks in New York were spent sleeping on a friend’s couch in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. From there I took my first faltering steps out into the city, frequenting […]
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How to Identify a Narcotrafficker
There’s a bar I used to like going to for after-work micheladas. The beers were big, the snacks were bountiful, the patrons were moustached and heavy-set, the girls on their […]
Death by Hyenas vs. Grad School
I came to Mexico intending to go from there to grad school. I didn’t know what I wanted to study, but I knew I was almost ready to go back […]
Finding a safe place in Morelia
Bus terminals; the inevitable, usually pretty shitty first impression of so many cities. Arriving in Morelia at night felt particularly perilous. There was a desk selling tickets for official taxis, […]
Beautiful Butterflies vs. Instant Bloody Death
This was a conundrum that I’d been avoiding for a long time. When I first started out in Mexico I went about recklessly, oblivious to much of what was going […]
