Several Hard Crackers editors will be at The Word Is Change, a bookstore in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, March 22 at 7pm. If you’re in the area, please join us for readings from recent print issues and the Hard Crackers blog, followed by an open discussion.
“Together, We Can Create the World We Want to See”: An Interview with ChatGPT
Recently, an editor at Hard Crackers discovered that many students in his classes were having their homework assignments written for them by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT, a piece of software that draws on the collective knowledge of the Internet to engage in conversation with users. Much of this writing demonstrated profound insight […]
What is to Be Hated
There is no hatred more sublime than the kind you share with others. This is true of the worst and best hatreds, but when that hatred lies between the political and the aesthetic, what some people might call “taste,” you really find that hatred is meant to be shared. Everyone hates cancel culture until the […]
Class Wall-fare in Oaxaca
Located in southern Mexico, just northwest of Chiapas and the Guatemalan border, Oaxaca is among the wealthier states in the country, culturally. It is also resource-rich, producing abundant agriculture, meat, fish, and other delights that continue to attract well-heeled Mexicans and expatriates from the rest of North America and Europe. For them, and for me, […]
A Saturday Afternoon in Brooklyn
The Hard Crackers Release Party for Issue #9 on Saturday, January 7th, went off with a bang, not of the NYPD variety. Between 20 and 30 people were in attendance. The Freddy’s Bar Backroom was filled. John Garvey gave an introduction and laid out the Hard Crackers journey since our last event at Freddy’s, which was […]
Plowshares into Swords: John Brown and the Poet of Rage: An Appreciation of the Work of Russell Banks
The novelist Russell Banks died on January 7, 2023. We are publishing this appreciation of his work by Beth Henson that first appeared in Race Traitor #10 (Winter, 1999). Beth does a wonderful job describing Russell Banks’s “voyages” through the discontents of people’s daily lives. The Hard Crackers editors are especially thankful to Beth for agreeing […]