Readings

, ||Marianne Faithful in Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
Unrepentant: On Being a Biker Chick Magnet

At age seventeen, Lorne Campbell was the youngest person to ever join the Satan's Choice motorcycle gang. Unrepentant, a new book by Peter Edwards, tells the story of Campbell—now in his 60s—from his violent upbringing and hard-partying ways, to a relentless dedication to the biker lifestyle.

In Defence of a Liberal Arts Degree

I do not have a job or any sense of where my career is headed. I have done unpaid internship after unpaid internship. And yet I wouldn't trade my overpriced undergraduate experience for anything.

I'm With Miss Pamela

The two-day writing workshop run by famous rock groupie and memoirist Pamela Des Barres' encourages women to mine their past for racy anecdotes while exposing their emotional vulnerabilities. The result is something like an all-girl, hotter, Burning Man.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Straight-Talk About Race

Americanah author Chimamanda Adichie describes herself as "old-fashioned," but her piercingly honest observations on race are anything but. She talks to Hazlitt about preferring black hair over baseball as a subject matter, and de-exotifying Nigeria for a North American audience.