How maddening it was to our friend the mollusk to be subjected almost every day (and sometimes more) to the callous cliche that haunts a bi-valve’s life. Each time someone, oft-times fork in hand, thoughtlessly uttered the bitter oath, the mollusk would feel himself shrinking, shriveling inward, as if he could escape the narrative of...
An Open Letter to Councilmember Hugo Soto-MartinezDear Councilmember Soto-Martinez,
The man you replaced, Mitch O’Farrell, was perceived by many as a cynical politician who placed the desires of wealthy real-estate developers over the concerns of the people he was supposed to represent. Sensitive to any perception of impropriety, you’ve made it a point to not accept…
For more than forty years one of our favorite writers, Detroit-based Peter Werbe, has been publishing provocative essays about capitalism, technology, religion, politics, and popular culture in the anarchist journal The Fifth Estate, where he’s long been an indispensable member of the editorial collective. Some of his best work is now organized in a compulsively readable...
