Lucy Teitler
Lucy Teitler
Recent Stories
Bits & Pieces: The wonders of the Yalie superstition
People at Yale are crazy. We work too much and think that talking about how much work we have is interesting and how little of it we are doing is funny. But maybe there is something more interesting about our idiosyncrasies. This reporter set out to...
The Liberation
My sister still goes to my old school. So even though the pandemonium of my last month in high school led me to declare in my journal that, "to burn my bridges would be no great violence," my bridge remains pretty sturdy. I still hear about which new...
Ichabod
They worked together at the college newspaper. She had thought he was kind of freaky at first, he was so short and spindly and bearded, and his fingernails were always longer than they should have been. When he laughed, it was like a tremendous wheeze...
Norman Mailer, fearing democracy's last gasps
I arrived late to see Norman Mailer speak at Sudler Hall on September 23rd. I had mixed up literary engagements in my date book and went first instead to Battell Chapel, where Adrienne Rich was scheduled to speak a week later, and found myself...
Artspace's 'For the Birds' fails to take flight
Mixed media installment falls short of expectations, leaves audience grounded
"For the Birds" is a title with potential. Taking into account David Smith's wrought iron ornithological sculpture, Alfred Hitchcock's chilling aviary masterpiece, and most recently Santiago Calatrava's soaring project for the PATH station at Ground...
Ghosts and exes haunt GPSCY halls
TYLER: GPSCY, the Graduate-Professional Student Center at Yale, is haunted by spirits. Now, I don't mean those lonely souls that we colloquially refer to as "TAs." Nor am I referring to the bar's countless tales of anonymous bathroom encounters.
From a book, an epic tragedy
As the leading credits roll for "The Human Stain," we watch a Volvo station wagon maneuver along the icy curves of a New England road. We see the car from an aerial view and we see a close-up of the man and woman in the car. We see the car from a third...
Don't go without 'Life Without Me'
Film
Lede: If you are feeling depressed, do not see this movie. Lede: If you are feeling depressed, do see this movie. Lede: I had heard that this movie was bad and had a first line all picked out: "It is a sad day for Spaniards and Blondie fans.
Democratic ideals, fiscally Republican
It is two o'clock in the morning on a Thursday and I am walking home, past the nocturnal electricians packing amps and instruments into trucks outside of Toad's and boys throwing their drunken arms around drunken shoulders. I have just come from six...
Sexism in the English Department
Imagine an economics seminar in which there is only one woman. You do not have to stretch your imagination particularly far. Simply flipping through the online facebook will tell you that more men than women take economics classes. Now imagine that the...