Summer 2023 Nonfiction – Big City Lit

How We Became New York

Michelle Cacho-NegreteSummer 2023, Summer 2023 Nonfiction

by Michelle Cacho-Negrete We were Poland. We were Romania. We were Ukraine We were Hungary. We were Russia. We arrived in New York with ragged clothes, a swirl of languages, and our babushkas and yarmulkas and kasha and borsch and pierogi and cozonac and palinka and our dreams and nightmares, and later, tattoos on our

This Time

J. DavidSummer 2023, Summer 2023 Nonfiction

by J. David I hear a muffled ping from underneath my parka as I drive to school. It’s a text message that will have to wait until I get to my desk. While I’m wondering who it could be, a call from an unidentified number rings through the radio. When I answer, an electronic voice

Touched By a Mouse

Thaddeus RutkowskiSummer 2023, Summer 2023 Nonfiction

by Thaddeus Rutkowski The first sign was a brownish-gray blur shooting across our floor. It went so fast we couldn’t tell if it was a living thing or just a trick of the eye—a shadow made by the batting of an eyelid. Over the next few days, however, the blur slowed down, as if the