Email Author Lisa Gray

2000 Stories by Lisa Gray

• Soul Machine

  published April 27, 2000

  Todd Mikosh and the other Apple II diehards clump stubbornly in the hallway, rocks in a stream of Macintosh users. The Mac people -- lots of... More >>

• Notes on Cool

  published April 20, 2000

  1. A sensibility, as distinct from an idea, is one of the hardest things to talk about. -- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp" Buffalo... More >>

• Gray

  published April 13, 2000

  In the afternoon, around four, the interns and researchers snap to attention when Michael Lieberman enters the lab. A boss-is-here current runs... More >>

• Saving Baby Angela

  published March 23, 2000

  On the freeway, Susan Sciacca left the driver's-side window open an inch while she smoked, a cartoon air freshener dangling from her rearview... More >>

• Gray

  published March 23, 2000

  Around 1 a.m. Corvettes jam James Coney Island's front parking lot, displaying their low-slung, curvaceous selves to be admired by all the world ... More >>

• Swordplay? No Way!

  published March 2, 2000

  The medieval long-sword I'm holding in both hands, over my head, isn't real. It's a wooden "waster," designed for training -- and God knows that... More >>

• Keep Off the Grass

  published February 17, 2000

  Asking Felder Rushing for a gardening opinion is like fertilizing kudzu: No matter how much exuberance you brace for, the result still... More >>

• The Goode Son

  published January 6, 2000

  The sun-dried tomatoes scared me. I was worried that something had gotten into Jim Goode. For years I've loved his very Texan empire: the two... More >>