ByJen Vafidis

Jen Vafidis is the deputy editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She also has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Vice, and the Daily Beast. The theme song to The O.C. gets her kind of emotional.

  1. In Carey McWilliams’s California: The Great Exception, there is a section about a startling type of woman living in the mining towns born in the Gold Rush. These women were neither wives nor mothers. Not maids, not cooks. A popular barroom ballad from the decade: The miners came in forty-nine, The whores in fifty-one; When they got together, They produced the native son. Melinda Clarke, the actress who portrayed Julie Cooper on the popular teen…

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