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Hard Crackers Print Issues

Hard Crackers Issue 9

Hard Crackers
Issue 9 Fall 2022

In This Issue

  1. Editors Introduction
  2. Mushahid Hussain:The Power of Everyday Collectivity
  3. Beth Henson: Bisbee 1984
  4. Tim Bruno: How to There
  5. Adelina Gina: Where is My Brother?
  6. Mike Morgan: Goinโ€™ Down South
  7. Bob Myers: The World in 60 Acres
  8. Steven Weidman: Another Evening on record Street
  9. Jenny Morgan: Cycling in Italy
  10. Paul Wasserman: Final Resting Places
  11. Patrick King: From the Grocery Isles to the Front Lines
  12. The Left Hook: The Left Hook Goes to the Movies
Hard Crackers Issue 8

Hard Crackers
Issue 8 Summer 2021

In This Issue

  1. From The Editors
  2. Kadeem Johnson: โ€œThis injustice shit ainโ€™t nothing newโ€ โ€“ Thoughts on 2020 from Inside
  3. James Stephens:  Just Another Swing-State Story
  4. Shaun: Where Dreams Go To Die
  5. Marty Brown: Portland, Pottawatomie, and โ€œThe Good Lord Birdโ€
  6. Tim Bruno: To All the Comrades I Could Have Known
  7. John Garvey & Mike Morgan: On Gentrification in Brooklyn
  8. Matt Capri: 2020
  9. Left Hook: The Sports Column Around the World in Five Days
Hard Crackers Issue - A Tribute to Noel Ignatiev

Hard Crackers
A Tribute to Noel Ignatiev

In This Issue

  1. Editors’ Introduction Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019, Jarrod Shanahan
  2. Noel Ignatiev, a Political Genius, Beth Henson
  3. “So many of us were students of Noel”, M. Treloar
  4. My Good and Beloved Companion, My Huck Finn, Robert Gerst
  5. Learning and Teaching, Justine Johnson
  6. Moving Noel, John Strucker
  7. Remembering Mr. Noel “Over the Top” Ignatiev, John Bracey
  8. Last Phone Call, Geert Dhondt
  9. Acceptable Men: A Memoir (excerpts), Noel Ignatiev
  10. Why Argue?, Joel Olson & Noel Ignatiev
  11. Duking It Out with Noel, Cloee Cooper & Zhandarka Kurti
  12. No Condescending Saviors: A Personal Tribute, Gary Fields
  13. “This relationship might be a short one”: My First Recollections of Noel, Don Hamerquist
  14. Ambiguous Encouters, Avery D’Agostino
  15. Noel Ignatiev’s Long Fight Against Whiteness, Jay Caspian Kang
  16. “Noel may be done with us, but we are not done with him”, John Garvey
  17. The Natural, The Left Hook
Hard Crackers Issue 7

Hard Crackers
Issue 7 Fall 2019

In This Issue

  1. Editorโ€™s Note
  2. Atlantic City and the American Imaginary, Jenny Morgan
  3. How the Show Might Stop, John Garvey
  4. The Fireman, James Livingston
  5. The Lyceum Was Empty,Kelley Howell
  6. Eulogy for William Boyd, Mitch Runnels
  7. Notes of a Hanging Judge, Ron Chism
  8. But Sometimes They Do, Dexter Cruthaim
  9. The Vroom Vroom Club, The Left Hook
  10. About Hard Crackers
Hard Crackers Issue 6

Hard Crackers
Issue 6 Winter 2019

In This Issue

  1. Introduction, From the Editors
  2. Defining Hard Crackers, From the Editors
  3. Alabama Trilogy, Curtis Price
  4. On Disaster Weather Reporting, Mike Morgan
  5. Vignettes from the Gulf South, Hillary Donnell
  6. The Panther Burns, Bull Fury
  7. The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens, John Garvey
  8. A Cab Ride in Doha, Jenny Morgan
  9. A Different Population These Days, Jonathan Chabrier
  10. Not Even in Spanish, Tanzeem Shaneela
  11. In Memoriam: Lowell May
    Sports Column, The Left Hook
Hard Crackers Issue 5

Hard Crackers
Issue 5 Summer 2018

In This Issue

  1. From the Editors
  2. See What Happens Now, Jarrod Shanahan
  3. Down on the Farm, Dexter Cruthaim
  4. Nothing HappenedNoel Ignatiev
  5. Heartland Reunion, Lowell May
  6. Dutchโ€™s Word, Mike Morgan
  7. A Coal Minerโ€™s Musings, Cloee Cooper
  8. Winding Stair Mountain, Richard Dixon
  9. Booking at David L. Moss, Josh Wann
  10. Captured in Crown Heights, Benjamin Rubenstein
  11. Albertiโ€™s Andalusia, Zhandarka Kurti
  12. Sports Column, The Left Hook
Hard Crackers Issue 4

Hard Crackers
Issue 4 Winter 2018

In This Issue

  1. Table of Contents
    From the Editors
  2. Itโ€™s a Shelter,Edwin Rivera
  3. A Life Worth Living, Max Mackay
  4. Outside In, Inside Out, David Ranney
  5. Summertime in Mzansi, Salim Washington
  6. Know Your Neighbors, Mike Morgan
  7. Service Interruption, Jarrod Shanahan
  8. Freestyling To Freedom, Tony Maniscalco
  9. Theater Of Law, Josh Goldfein
  10. Sports, The Left Hook
  11. American Society (Mission)
Hard Crackers Issue 3

Hard Crackers
Issue 3 Fall 2017

In This Issue

  1. Table of Contents
    Editorsโ€™ Introduction
  2. Ancestry.com, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
  3. Poems, Claire Cahen
  4. Cooperative Exploitation, H.W.
  5. Into the Hollows, Tim Paulson
  6. Massage Therapist Escapes Shark Attack, Gwen Taylor
  7. Neighborhood Watch, Maud Pryor
  8. What a Waste of Time, Zhandarka Kurti
  9. About Hard Crackers
Hard Crackers Issue 2

Hard Crackers
Issue 2 Fall 2016

In This Issue

  1. In This Issue
    From a Small New England Town
  2. A Sunday in Chinatown
  3. Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock
  4. Eating Good Enough at Rikers Island
  5. Occupy the Free State of Jones
  6. CUNY at the Crossroads
  7. When Your Neighbor is BP
  8. Hacking
    Interview with โ€œNefariousโ€
  9. Prescription Painkillers Overdoses
    Awakening
  10. Kansas Enlightenment Project
  11. The Day Frank Got Out of Jail
  12. The Electrifying Mojo
  13. Nowhere to Run To
  14. About Hard Crackers
Hard Crackers Issue 1

Hard Crackers
Issue 1 Spring 2016

In This Issue

  1. Editorโ€™s Introduction
  2. Some Bullshit, Jarrod Shanahan
  3. No Pain No Gain, Kingsley Clarke
  4. Rats, Mike Morgan
  5. Eeenie Meenie Miney Mo, Gay Pasley
  6. Huntsville Notes, Curtis Price
  7. Stevie Lebron, Tony Maniscalco
  8. Influence, Noel Ignatiev
  9. Ray, Tom Bura
  10. American Society