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Home » Archives for Dmitry Samarov » Page 15

Author Archives: Dmitry Samarov

Posted inBlogs

Making a Murderer documents the inexorable nightmare that is the criminal justice system

by Dmitry Samarov December 30, 2015August 18, 2021

Netflix’s new documentary miniseries is the latest addition to the burgeoning true-crime-serial canon.

Posted inNews & Politics

Why I quit social media cold turkey in 2015

by Dmitry Samarov December 22, 2015August 18, 2021

The feeling of connection offered by Twitter and Instagram was an addiction—one that’s been hard to kick.

Posted inArts & Culture

In a new memoir, Gary Shteyngart is no Little Failure

by Dmitry Samarov January 22, 2014August 18, 2021

In Little Failure, Gary Shteyngart looks back on an immigrant childhood.

Posted inBlogs

Nite Cap

by Dmitry Samarov March 31, 2010August 19, 2021

“He was kinda cute, right? I wrote my number across his whole forearm, he said he was still going out, so maybe he’ll call later…”

Posted inBlogs

Fruitless Loops

by Dmitry Samarov March 24, 2010August 19, 2021

Two types fill a cabdriver with dread: those looking to score and those looking for a free ride.

Posted inBlogs

Ohio House

by Dmitry Samarov March 16, 2010August 19, 2021

A rider reminisces about the Ohio House Motel, which his uncle owned “in the 70s before selling it to the Archdiocese of Chicago.”

Posted inBlogs

Fog

by Dmitry Samarov March 9, 2010August 19, 2021

It just wasn’t a night for certainty.

Posted inBlogs

MEN ONLY

by Dmitry Samarov February 25, 2010August 19, 2021

“They don’t like you, Bob, in fact they hate your guts.”

Posted inBlogs

Still the Only White Cabdriver in Chicago

by Dmitry Samarov February 19, 2010August 19, 2021

I was just given an $8 tip for being white.

Posted inBlogs

Banter

by Dmitry Samarov February 12, 2010August 19, 2021

She stands on the curb, in the narrow break between two drifts, separated from the cab door by a dark moat of slush and grime. “Thirteen hundred North Astor, at the corner of Goethe–or Gothie,” she says.

Posted inBlogs

Soldier

by Dmitry Samarov February 10, 2010August 19, 2021

Sometimes a cabdriver will hear much more than he ever wanted to.

Posted inBlogs

Vampire Hours

by Dmitry Samarov February 8, 2010August 19, 2021

On winter weeknights, only the tow trucks, the cops, and the true lunatics will cross a cabdriver’s path.

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