Katherine Dykstra
- Author, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
New York
Author WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: ON THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN GIRL @wwnorton Once @guernicamag nonfiction editor. Always mama. | she/her
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Articles by Katherine Dykstra
Why Crafting is, and Always Has Been, a Rebellious Act
Activism — 8 min read Artwork: Kim Sielbeck. The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. 💛 February is usually a month I spend hunkered down. But this year, a few months ago, in the dead of a frigid Northeast winter, I was drawn out of my warm house by a blinding rage tempered with the smallest glimmer of hope.
This Kansas Transplant Will Never Take the Jersey Shore for Granted
Do you know how difficult it is for most people to get to the beach?” I made pointed eye contact with my 10-year-old son in the rearview mirror. We were on our way to Cape May for a week. “Most people have to take a plane! Not only can we drive, we can get there before lunch!” The first time my son saw the ocean, he was still in diapers. He was three when he built his first sandcastle, five when he was rolled by his first wave.
Book Review: ‘Liliana’s Invincible Summer,’ by Cristina Rivera Garza
Nonfiction In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer,” Cristina Rivera Garza interrogates her sister’s death to reshape the conversation about femicide. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister, Liliana, was murdered when Liliana was 20-years-old. In her new book, “Liliana’s Invincible Summer,” Rivera Garza writes her sister back into existence.Credit...Penguin Random House Feb.
Book Review: ‘Liliana’s Invincible Summer,’ by Cristina Rivera Garza
Book Review|A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/books/review/lilianas-invincible-summer-cristina-rivera-garza.html Nonfiction In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer,” Cristina Rivera Garza interrogates her sister’s death to reshape the conversation about femicide. Published Feb.
Postpartum
In 1966, seven years before Roe v. Wade was decided, Roz Doneen missed her period. She was fifteen. Her parents pulled her out of high school and sent her twenty miles from where she lived in upstate New York to what she believes was a foster home, though it was never identified as such. There were other children staying there, but she was the only pregnant one. Roz, who is now seventy and lives in Tacoma, Washington, stayed at the home for most of her second and third trimesters.
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Kevin Cooper is Guilty #7
Why would people believe that Kevin Cooper, a repeat offender who was convicted of the brutal 1983 murders of chiropractors Doug and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and sleep-over guest Christopher Hughes, age 11? The attack also left son Josh Ryen, whose throat was slit, for dead, but Josh somehow survived. The case was reviewed by numerous judicial authorities that never concluded they should overturn his conviction or death sentence.
A Death-Row Inmate’s Embrace of William F. Buckley Jr.
In a country that incarcerates Black people at a rate five times that of white people, one thing is uncomfortably clear: The truth matters less than who controls the narrative. The person whose perspective is amplified is more often the one believed. Just ask Kyle Rittenhouse, the white Fox News favorite who walks free despite shooting three people during a protest against police violence.
How a Death-Row Inmate’s Embrace of Conservatism Led to His Release
Nonfiction Edgar Smith (right) appeared on “Firing Line” with William F. Buckley Jr.Credit...Bettmann, via Getty Images Feb. 22, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET SCOUNDREL How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment and the Courts to Set Him Free By Sarah Weinman In a country that incarcerates Black people at a rate five times that of white people, one thing is uncomfortably clear: The truth matters less than who controls the narrative.
For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth
“[Humans] cannot tolerate not knowing the cause of things that effect our lives.” —Lewis Wolpert, British developmental biologist. In November of 1970, a pair of young brothers discovered 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling’s body just beyond the mouth of a culvert adjacent the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It’s been more than 50 years, and her homicide has never been solved.
We Never Forget, Memorial Day Poem
by Mary Jean Gasper 5 months ago A Hero Cry To be here at war is so sad. To be far from loved ones is too bad. It's like a bad dream I can't wake up from. Flares, bombs bursting in air. The voice of young men crying out in pain, enough to drive us all insane. When I wake up from this dream, I will cross lakes, bayous, rivers and streams. People should realize that we are ONE NATION UNDER GOD. Stop seeing one's color as a rod. Stand by each other's side, and you wouldn't have to hear this hero cry.
Sellers standing firm in Sutton Place
Burt Stavitsky of Brown Harris StevensWho wouldn’t want to live in Sutton Place? The prewar-laden enclave stretches from the south side of East 52nd Street to the north side of East 59th Street, and from Second Avenue to the river. It’s a part of Manhattan that feels wholly unlike Manhattan. There are tree-lined streets and blocks landscaped with tulips — all next to the East River.
Perspective | My child is here, but my body is still not my own
One afternoon as I nursed my son in the glider in his bedroom, I felt a stabbing sensation and looked down to find that the nail on his pointer finger was implausibly sharp –the tiniest awl driven into my chest just above my right breast. The pain was more acute than the burning milk blisters on my nipples and more immediate than the dull ache that had inhabited my upper back since I’d begun spending all my time curled around my baby’s body — the star to my crescent moon.
What’s new
Call it the perfect storm. The supply of NYC condos for sale is down (48 percent from the peak in 2008). Demand is up (with mortgage rates low and rents high). And consumer confidence has been reinstated. So says Kelly Mack, president of Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. Together, these factors have lead to what looks like a very promising fall for new condos. “It is incredibly active,” Mack says of the new development market.
Eighth wonder
Casey Tuck has lived on West Eighth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Greenwich Village for nearly five years. His block, a long one, bisected by MacDougal Street on the south side, is made up mostly of low-rise, mixed-use, walk-up tenement buildings with retail on the ground floor and rental apartments above. In recent years, the block’s businesses were of the shoe-store, head-shop, tattoo-parlor variety.
Nice Tri
( ) There’s something of the ghost-town to the area that straddles the westernmost section of Canal Street — specifically the cobbled streets of north TriBeCa and the insular loop of south Hudson Square. In both neighborhoods, there is so little traffic, pedestrian or otherwise, that one can literally walk down the center of the street and not see a soul or get run over by a car.
In the Heights
Talk to almost anyone affiliated with Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, and their unofficial line on Vanderbilt Avenue is that it’s what Cobble Hill’s Smith Street was 10 years ago. By that, they mean it’s primed to become the local go-to stretch for everything from a cup of coffee and a seat outside to a locally sourced gourmet dinner. And residential developers are also a big part of this thoroughfare’s land grab.
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