Ancient Grains Archive
Every Time The Narrator In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth Passes Out
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 20, 2013
There is perhaps no book I find more joy in revisiting than Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. I have seen every single film adaptation thereof, including the Brendan Fraser remake (both the regular and 3D version). As a child, I sometimes whispered the name Arne Saknussemm to myself when I was
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Three Poems
Ancient Grains, Poetry
Sep 20, 2013
Nicole Steinberg's Getting Lucky, a collection of sonnets constructed entirely from editorial copy from Lucky Magazine, can soon be in your hands. These poems, however, have nothing to do with said august publication or its editorial copy. - Ed.
FMK
All those times I made the babysitter watch
Sleeping
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Zinaida Portnova: Young Avenger
Ancient Grains, History
Sep 20, 2013
Alexis Coe’s past essays on women’s history for The Toast can be found here. Most recently: A Very Unnatural Crime.
Zinaida Portnova was visiting her grandmother’s farm when she first spotted the uniformed men approaching the barn. It was 1941, and they had come for the family’s cattle. Herbert Black,
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The Stages of Accepting That Go Ask Alice Wasn’t Real
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 20, 2013
Oh my God. This was made up? This was MADE UP? I thought this was a real girl. I THOUGHT THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ME. I thought this was real?
Okay, but how made up was this? "Edited" made up or "fiction" made up?
HER NAME WASN'T EVEN ALICE?
I
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Banned Books I Have Loved
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 20, 2013
Spring has sprung. Summer has lingered. Fall is falling. And winter is coming.
It’s back-to-school time for all of the little children (and many of the grown-ups like me, who have traded in reading the things we like to read for the things that we ...Read More
Your Fast Food Jobs
Ancient Grains, Work
Sep 20, 2013
I recently obtained a Blizzard (Oreo, plus mint) at a local Dairy Queen, representing the first time I've actually eaten anything from a Dairy Queen since I worked there for three years in high school, and I could feel the dried soft serve matting the hair on my forearms once more into
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An Exclusive, Unedited Interview With Pope Francis
Ancient Grains, Interviews
Sep 19, 2013
“This is how it is with Mary: If you want to know who she is, you ask theologians; if you want to know how to love her, you have to ask the people. In turn, Mary loved Jesus with the heart of the people, as we read in the Magnificat. We should not
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Is This A Drinking Story?
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 19, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
If I put together all the times I've seen Her drunk, those scenes would make a very boring after-school special. She's never lost a job because of drinking, never set a fire, never sobbed in humiliation, begging for forgiveness for some terrible, ...Read More