Editor's Note: This month's Purple Prose previously appeared as an online exclusive in our spring 2009 issue. We're always on the lookout for fresh alumni insights. If you'd like to submit an essay, ...

He lives in San Rafael. Northwestern magazine is looking for Northwestern alumni who would like to write for Purple Prose, the 800-word personal essay that appears in every issue. If you feel strongly ...

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PURPLE PROSE, PURPLE HAZE for, yes, purple. One group like that, great. But four… well it just made it all a bit too easy, ...

Those images inspired his poem Jacaranda Season. It celebrates the trees’ carpet bombs: a “deciduous delight” of “lilac ...

ANATOMY OF ME (367 pp.)—Fannie Hurst—Doubleday ($5). Theodore Dreiser, that shaggy old lion of American letters, sat in a library reference room reading St. Thomas Aquinas. Next to Dreiser sat ...

The rise of Kamala Harris, the tenacious child of high-achieving immigrants, is atypical. But her story is also distinctly ...

How is it that Orwell has become the single answer to so many questions, in so many different subjects, for so many people? His name conjures an amorphous idea of fair play and “common sense”; his ...

Dread Delusion follows in the vein of many recent indies. A game that tries to recapture the wonder and enchantment of the ...

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It was coinflip here but I saw Purple Haze first and followed up with purple prose, Purple Rain and purple heart. With two song references (Jimi Hendrix's Haze and Prince's Rain), I can see why ...

It celebrates the trees’ carpet bombs: a “deciduous delight” of “lilac lethality” on “pedestrian foot soldiers” who “march through the purple parade”. To mark this year’s ...