Margot Kahn
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Undone. A Moving Story.
From All Over &Park Slope &Upper West Side about Apartment Life, Art and Performance, Men, movers, moving day, Transportation, WomenPublished on: 05/22/2011
Margot Kahn's first book, Horses That Buck, is the biography of an old rodeo cowboy. She is the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship from Columbia University, the Ohioana Library Association’s Walter Marvin Rumsey Award for a promising writer under 30, the High Plains “Best First Book” Award and individual artist awards from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and the King County Arts Commission. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and has worked professionally as a journalist, speechwriter and arts administrator. She currently curates creative writing programs at Richard Hugo House in Seattle, Washington.
Cars and Crimes and Trains My wife (we weren’t yet married at the time) had a fairly new ’81 Toyota Starlet stolen in Brooklyn. We took a city bus to the police precinct to report it stolen (no over the phone reports back in those days). Halfway there, we insisted that the driver stop the […]
Insects The following is a contemporary take on the medieval bestiary, featuring descriptions and characterizations of the actual and apocryphal creatures that share our constricted urban space. This second installment is devoted to insects. Stomped, smoked out, asphyxiated, and trampled underfoot, they elicit a degree of fear and disgust disproportionate to their size. Quietly going […]
Around two years ago, I’m walking down Broadway and once again I encounter Mickey Mouse. (Not the actual Mickey—he’s either passed on to the rodent afterlife or is living in a fancy retirement resort on a golf course in Nevada). This version of Mickey I’m talking about (which disappeared during Covid) was a very large […]
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