Category: Autobiographical

From Bible stories to the Ten Commandments, public schools are starting to look a lot like the fundamentalist system I escaped When I got the

Tales of wars, plagues and starvation left my friends and me fearing we’d be ‘left behind’. They haunt me to this day After millions of

One stormy night in the summer of 1992, I walked down the basement steps of my parents’ house to await the apocalypse. The Iowa air

Growing up in the tiny hamlet of Clear Lake, Iowa (population 7500), there weren’t many opportunities for me to encounter my heroes of music, film,

From the ages of 17 to 19, I believed that God had cursed me with a swollen left testicle that was the size and shape

I think chewing gum is the most disgusting thing you can possibly do with your face, which is just about the only thing I have

As far back as my pre-school years I was showing signs of an unhealthy obsession with both girls and music—behaviors that remain with me today

For one week during the winter of 2005, I worked for a puppy mill in Iowa. My friend and I had been hired to drive

The most iconic villains in the gentrification of Denver are the bros riding the bicycle equivalent of an SUV while blasting “Blurred Lines,” and the

In his new memoir, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life, novelist Tom Robbins writes, “Not one word of my oeuvre, not one,