My boyfriend bought me a pie bird. Yes, you read right. A few weeks ago when we were surveying things down in the wondrous Italian Market in South Philly, my boyfriend bought me a pie bird. To own a pie bird is a dream I have had for at least a year. I know: you’re feeling overwhelming jealousy right now. Well, maybe it’s more like...
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Click here to listen to an clip of the audiobook for The Third Reich, graciously provided to Side B Magazine by MacMillan Audio! — Since Roberto Bolaño’s death in 2003, a number of his books have been published posthumously and translated into English by either Chris Andrews or Natasha Wimmer. As readers we’ve come to expect certain things in...
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I saw Pay It Forward when I was too young to cope with the death (spoiler alert) of the main character, Trevor, but the general concept was something my fifth grade self, having never been exposed to the idea, appreciated. It, the “do something nice for someone and they’ll do something nice for someone else” concept, drifted to the back of my mind...
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Picture it: The Fitzgeralds (Zelda and Scott, if you are more familiar) are at a party in Paris circa 1924, and they are handed champagne. You and I, we go to a classy restaurant for a celebration—oh congratulations, I hope you did something absolutely fabulous to get us here, oh I just know you did, darling—and order champagne. They probably...
Read MoreWhen most children grow up and enter into the family line of business, rarely is that business probably the film business. This, however, is the case for 28-year-old Welsh screenwriter Thomas Humphreys. Humphreys’ father works in film and TV, including the beloved and long-running “Doctor Who.” Humphreys’ brother, Michael, also went into the...
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