
Indy Week
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County). Its first issue was published in April 1983. Indy Week is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and has a progressive, liberal political perspective. The Columbia Journalism Review has cited the newspaper for its "spine of steel."[citation needed] The print edition is published on Wednesdays.
Stephanie Clare Smith: Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination | UNC Press, January 2024 I have at least one thing in common with North Carolina–based writer Stephanie Clare Smith: we share a fascination with Harry Houdini, the great magician, escape artist—and keeper of secrets. “Harry Houdini said that his audience never saw the hours of torturous self-training it took to overcome fear and master the illusion,” Smith writes in her new memoir. “They saw only the miraculous way he held it together.” The book is set in...