DEAR AMTRAK by Colleen Asper
18 June 2015 Office of Customer Relations 60 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 Dear Amtrak, I am writing because I was deeply disappointed with the customer [...]
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Trinnie Dalton: THE SUITCASE REMAINS PACKED
At the height of it, here was my bicoastal adjuncting schedule. 2012–2014 Los Angeles/New York: Mondays through Wednesdays in LA teaching at USC and Art Center, Thursdays [...]
REVERSE COMMUTER by Jennifer Kabat
“The paving deep in the station had a frosty glitter, and she wondered if diamonds had been ground into the concrete.” This is Alice Malloy, rube, hick, innocent [...]
Jeremy Sigler: RETIRED AT 45
I’d rather die on an Amtrak, in a way, than live on one. Commuting on the toilet seat in the locked little room all the way down to Baltimore and back—between the two Penn Stations, which are about 3 hours from each other. I had so many fights with that one mousey conductor. He picked on me. Not because I look poor, but because I look like I don’t have to work no more. [...]
THE TRAINS : “Five Trains Each Way Means Ten Trains a Day” by Kristin Dombek
The first time I took a Path train it was like stumbling across another New York, a city just under, or to the side of, the one I knew. It happened one day late in winter, [...]
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