Little Italy in the Bronx is slowly waking up from the previous night’s revelry. A man wearing a “Kiss me, I’m Italian” t-shirt sets up his makeshift sidewalk kitchen, soon to be selling zeppoles, sausage, and peppers on the main strip of Arthur Avenue. To his left a Mexican family sets up their own stand, […]
Zhandarka Kurti
Editors’ Roundtable
The shooting at Douglas High School in Parkland prompted an exchange among our editors, which we are publishing here. To begin, three items: The first is from the Hard Crackers mission statement carried in every issue: American society is a time-bomb where the impending explosion is endlessly hinted at by horrifying “little” degradations of daily […]