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You Were Down the Road Eating
(Spotlight Runner-Up!)
When Dance Moms aired, I was open about the fact that I watched it, much to the puzzlement of other early-career scholars who were trying to be all high-brow. Nothing but podcasts and NPR for them. I, on the other hand, watched trashy TV while dissertating about Thomas Jefferson and Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and other white men who agonized about what would become of America—if it would last 30 years or 600, if it would survive the Whiskey Rebellion, if it would keep surging west.
Kristina Garvin
If you've ever had a Dunkin's donut, or breakfast sandwich, or coffee, you know what I mean when I say they aren't special. They aren't exclusive. But they aren't bad. In fact, they often hit just exactly the right spot: sweet, savory, bitter, squarely what you ordered.
Lydia C. Buchanan
