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Hard Crackers Journal Table of Contents

Hard Crackers is guided by one principle: that in the ordinary people of this country (and the world) there resides the capacity to escape from the mess we are in, and a commitment to documenting and examining their strivings to do so.

Issue No. 1, Spring 2016

  • Editor’s Introduction
  • Some Bullshit by Jarrod Shanahan
  • No Pain No Gain by Kingsley Clarke
  • Rats by Mike Morgan
  • Eeenie Meenie Miney Mo by Gay Pasley
  • Huntsville Notes by Curtis Price
  • Stevie Lebron by Tony Maniscalco
  • Influence by Noel Ignatiev
  • Ray by Tom Bura
  • American Society

Issue No. 2, Fall 2016

  • From a Small New England Town, as told to Noel Ignatiev
  • A Sunday in Chinatown, by Amiri Barksdale
  • Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock by James Murray
  • Eating Good Enough at Rikers Island by Jarrod Shanahan with Ishwar Gajraj
  • Occupy the Free State of Jones by Andrew Stewart
  • CUNY at the Crossroads (pamphlet reprint)
  • When Your Neighbor is BP by Cloee Cooper
  • Hacking by Mike Morgan
  • Interview with “Nefarious” by Curtis Price
  • Prescription Painkillers Overdoses
  • Awakening
  • Kansas Enlightenment Project
  • The Day Frank Got Out of Jail by Joshua Wann
  • The Electrifying Mojo by Bill Carney
  • Nowhere to Run To by Tony Maniscalco
  • About Hard Crackers

Issue No. 3, Fall 2017

  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Ancestry.com by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
  • Poems by Claire Cahen
  • Cooperative Exploitation by H.W.
  • Into the Hollows by Tim Paulson
  • Massage Therapist Escapes Shark Attack, by Gwen Taylor
  • Neighborhood Watch by Maud Pryor
  • What a Waste of Time by Zhandarka Kurti
  • About Hard Crackers

Issue No. 4, Winter 2018

  • From the Editors
  • It’s a Shelter by Edwin Rivera
  • A Life Worth Living by Max Mackay
  • Outside In, Inside Out by David Ranney
  • Summertime in Mzansi by Salim Washington
  • Know Your Neighbors by Mike Morgan
  • Service Interruption by Jarrod Shanahan
  • Freestyling To Freedom by Tony Maniscalco
  • Theater Of Law by Josh Goldfein
  • Sports Column by The Left Hook

Issue No. 5, Summer 2018

  • From the Editors
  • See What Happens Now by Jarrod Shanahan
  • Down on the Farm by Dexter Cruthaim
  • Nothing Happened by Noel Ignatiev
  • Heartland Reunion by Lowell May
  • Dutch’s Word by Mike Morgan
  • A Coal Miner’s Musings by Cloee Cooper
  • Winding Stair Mountain by Richard Dixon
  • Booking at David L. Moss by Josh Wann
  • Captured in Crown Heights by Benjamin Rubenstein
  • Alberti’s Andalusia by Zhandarka Kurti
  • Sports Column by The Left Hook

Issue No. 6, Winter 2019

  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Defining Hard Crackers, from the Editors
  • Alabama Trilogy by Curtis Price
  • On Disaster Weather Reporting by Mike Morgan
  • Vignettes from the Gulf South by Hillary Donnell
  • The Panther Burns by Bull Fury
  • The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens by John Garvey
  • A Cab Ride in Doha by Jenny Morgan
  • A Different Population These Days by Jonathan Chabrier
  • Not Even in Spanish by Tanzeem Shaneela
  • In Memoriam: Lowell May by Kingsley Clarke & Noel Ignatiev
  • Sports Column by The Left Hook

Issue No. 7, Fall 2019

  • Editor’s Introduction
  • Atlantic City and the American Imaginary, by Curtis Price
  • With Orlando Pirates by Jenny Morgan
  • How the Show Might Stop by John Garvey
  • The Fireman by James Livingston
  • The Lyceum Was Empty by Kelley Howell
  • Eulogy for William Boyd by Mitch Runnels
  • Notes of a Hanging Judge by Ron Chism
  • But Sometimes They Do by Dexter Cruthaim
  • The Vroom Vroom Club by The Left Hook

Special Issue Tribute to Noel Ignatiev, Spring 2021

  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019 by Jarrod Shanahan
  • Noel Ignatiev, a Political Genius by Beth Henson
  • “So many of us were students of Noel” by M. Treloar
  • My Good and Beloved Companion, My Huck Finn by Robert Gerst
  • Learning and Teaching by Justine Johnson
  • Moving Noel by John Strucker
  • Remembering Mr. Noel “Over the Top” Ignatiev by John Bracey
  • Last Phone Call by Geert Dhondt
  • Acceptable Men: A Memoir (excerpts) by Noel Ignatiev
  • Why Argue? by Joel Olson & Noel Ignatiev
  • Duking It Out with Noel by Cloee Cooper & Zhandarka Kurti
  • No Condescending Saviors: A Personal Tribute by Gary Fields
  • “This relationship might be a short one”: My First Recollections of Noel by Don Hamerquist
  • Ambiguous Encouters by Avery D’Agostino
  • Noel Ignatiev’s Long Fight Against Whiteness by Jay Caspian Kang
  • “Noel may be done with us, but we are not done with him” by John Garvey
  • The Natural by The Left Hook

Issue No. 8, Summer 2021

  • From The Editors
  • “This injustice shit ain’t nothing new”: Thoughts on 2020 from Inside by Kadeem Johnson
  • Just Another Swing-State Story by James Stephens
  • Where Dreams Go To Die by Shaun
  • Portland Pottawatomie, and “The Good Lord Bird” by Marty Brown
  • To All the Comrades I Could Have Known by Tim Bruno
  • On Gentrification in Brooklyn by John Garvey & Mike Morgan
  • 2020 by Matt Capri
  • Around the World in Five Days (Sports Column) by The Left Hook

Issue No. 9, Fall 2022

  • Editors’ Introduction
  • The Power of Everyday Collectivity by Mushahid Hussain
  • Bisbee 1984 by Beth Henson
  • Here to There by Tim Bruno
  • Where is My Brother? by Adelina Gina
  • Goin’ Down South by Mike Morgan
  • The World in 60 Acres by Bob Myers
  • Another Evening on Record Street by Steven Weidman
  • Cycling in Italy by Jenny Morgan
  • Final Resting Places by Paul Wasserman
  • From the Grocery Isles to the Front Lines by Patrick King
  • The Left Hook Goes to the Movies (Sports Column) by The Left Hook