http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=June+Cross Writing June Cross Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=342941&ca=Writing Writing my memoir began as a way of correcting the public record. The false story that my white mother and stepfather adopted me needed to be replaced by the truth. Telling the secret, making it public, was my way of inserting my truth into the national story. I was motivated not by a desire to tell... Short Stories June Cross Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=349279&ca=Short+Stories My stepfather Larry Storch’s success as a character actor hinged on the indeterminate ethnicity of his face: his broad forehead, defined cheekbones, slanted eyes, and that thicket of dark hair allowed him to play a range an Asian, a Mexican, or someone from the Mediterranean. Now, he wanted to be co... Writing June Cross Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=347709&ca=Writing People asked me how I survived, shapeshifting between my black mother and my white mother; traveling between New York and Atlantic City at least once a month. I tell them because both parents loved me; but I don't tell them how I made a a hobby out of cataloguing the differences between my two homes... Short Stories June Cross Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=348114&ca=Short+Stories I would enter Radcliffe College in September 1971, but graduate from Harvard College four years later. Mine was the last class of women admitted to Radcliffe; I was one of 56 black women; 165 black men had been admitted to Harvard. Women had been allowed in the same classroom as men since 1943; but... Family Concerns June Cross Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=342850&ca=Family+Concerns For reporters, the bad mother is a staple of feature story writing. I've interviewed some bad mothers in my time: there was the one who prostituted herself in front of her children; one who pimped her own twelve year-old daughter; the one who beat her son so badly that the sheet rock was marked with...