Tourists
“She wonders if they are going to swim despite the odds, then reads on: the ladder isn’t to be used for swimming but for emergency purposes.”
The View from Car 2: Loss Isn’t Unspeakable
The most painful losses are the ones we slowly learn to live with–of ideals that felt like they made us who we are, gone, but still here.
Towers: A Work of Historical Fiction Based on True Circumstances, Both Public and Private
Amira Pierce writes a fictional account about romance, fear and identity on 9/11.
Growing Up Means Knowing What We Must Do to What the World Has Done to Us
Amira Pierce on Junot Díaz, writing identity and the problem with the silent rule.
My Layover in the Future
A layover in Philly turns into a reckoning with technology and the future.
The Pleasures of Hating “Her”
Spike Jonze’s heavily lauded Oscar-contender about a recently divorced and lonely man who falls in love with his operating system isn’t necessarily the most perfect movie of all time.
The Tusk 