In honor of Queens College’s designation of the academic year 2013-14 as the “Year of Brazil”, all of us writers here at QC Voices are taking a moment to discuss certain interesting cultural, economic, and social aspects of this enormous country that has, in the past decade or so, become one of the most important […]
Entries from December 18th, 2013
Clarice Lispector, and QC’s Year of Brazil
December 18th, 2013 by Dustin Parmenter · No Comments · Beautiful Words, General, Thoughts
Tags:brazil·breath of life·clarice lispector·James Purdy·literature·new york·passion according to g.h.·queens college·reading·writing·year of brazil
“Old” vs. “New” New York
December 1st, 2013 by Dustin Parmenter · 1 Comment · Thoughts
It seems that the subject people living in New York most enjoy talking about at bars and coffee shops is, of course, the terminal uniqueness of New York living – its workaday joys, trials, tribulations, etc. – or, if one or more of the conversants has been here too long, the discussion inevitably turns […]
Tags:brooklyn·millenials·money·natives·new new york·old new york·pastrami·transplants·young people
Cheap Tobacco Alert!
December 1st, 2013 by Dustin Parmenter · No Comments · Cheap Tobacco
I’ve been meaning to do this for some time, but haven’t gotten around to it till now. Anyways, for all you desperate smokers out there: I’ve made it my mission to find and document the locations where one might find especially good deals on premium packs of cigarettes, those certain bodegas offering incomparable value for […]
Tags:american spirits·bushwick·cheap tobacco·marlboro·money·MTA·myrtle wyckoff·ridgewood·savings·value