Generation Magazine

A reflection by Eric Fortier

It is a wet and dreary Monday morning in March. I’m walking out of the basement of Alumni Arena—where my first class is—starting my journey across this immense campus to my next class in NSC.
The hope of spring—coupled with the string of mild, sunny days we’ve had in the past week—has inclined many to dust off …

By Josh Q. Newman
We just left the Generation office. Our goal: to find interesting things and write about them. Weird things go down when most students are slumbering in their dorms or sheltered away at home. It was an attempt at investigative/in-depth/gonzo journalism. Whatever you want to call it. I felt like Hunter S. Thompson when he ventured into the …

By Josh Q. Newman
He was sitting in his room, computer in his lap, getting softer. He looked about his room, disengaged with the task at hand, wishing for a miracle of prose or better yet a distraction to get him going. A scene from one of his favorite movies perhaps, or a conversation he had with a professor the other …

By Melissa Wright

Witcha witcha. Wa wa. Washington St. Did I overhear you say Downtown ain’t got nuttin goin on? At 8 p.m., you see the room full of literary types, dressed in garb like they walked outta Greenwich Village. Turns out, most of them did.
Walk in (careful! the door slams behind you—you rude a-hole). One poet walks out later on …

By Scott Patrick Kerrigan
11/26/99
Butler Library. Floor 6. Rare Books. The unlit stairs are ominous and quiet. It’s Black Friday. Not a soul. The door is always locked—partly because Satan himself keeps watch over the decaying papyrus and none dare disturb the beast, partly because Columbia prizes and fawns over the prosaic and poetic artifacts they themselves keep deep in their …

By Matthew Dunham
The relativity of time is astounding. If one were to make the case that the only reality is what we perceive, rather than some kind of physical externality all around us, an analysis of the way we think about time might be useful. Time is relentless: always moving forward, every second that passes is irretrievable. It is consistent—and …

By Scott Patrick Kerrigan
In light of the upcoming State of the Union Address, I would like to make an address to the affairs on the state of reading.
First, an anecdote. It was a new decade, the first day of classes. The professor began to explain one of the textbooks—just published this year, hot off the “sexy underground,” if you will …

You just can’t make some of this shit up.
By Melissa Wright
Character 1
Heh heh. So cut the onions up.  Look, if you cut the onions and I eat the onions, I’ll love ya because we both smell like onions. Did you hear me? Hey, we’ll both smell like onions, so I’ll still love ya. You cut the onions, I eat the …

By Eric Schles
It’s time. It’s time to stop saying “people would be better if”, it’s time to be better.  We can hate.  We can freak out. We can go crazy.  Or, we can do something different.  I am not proposing we drop out.  I am not proposing we run away.  I am merely proposing we start to let go.  Stay, …

By Melissa Wright
Associate Editor
A posthumous dialogue between some real-life characters on an imaginary television show. If the title made you believe that there would be some Marxist power struggles going on in here, you can pat yourself on the back – not too hard.
Characters:
Laura (Riding) Jackson (LRJ): She is well into her “second understanding of things” and with it …