Welcome to the first issue of The Worcester Journal, a new magazine for new writers. Here you’ll find plenty to entertain and interest you, such as why Charles Dickens hated America but loved Lowell, Mass., how Godzilla was transformed from a mindless monster into a beloved icon, why Bollywood movies are actually good, and how the strained family dynamics of three cousins, two of whom were Queen Victoria’s grandsons, affected World War I. 

You’ll find personal essays on being an immigrant teenager, losing a family member, finding out that you are both like and unlike your parents, and making peace with memories of being bullied. There are also reviews of books by poet Andrea Gibson and polymath Nassim Taleb, a collection of quips, a profile of a successful romance writer, a meditation on Lewis Carroll, and an attempt to explain one man’s obsession with Herman Melville and Moby-Dick. 

We also feature a series of photographs showing the beauty of Tibet, a touching story from a school for blind children in Nepal, and two poems, “The Mountain” and “Tending My Grandfather’s Garden, and First Visiting His Grave.”

If you find something you like, please share it. If you’d like to get involved with the Journal as a writer, photographer, editor, or intern, shoot us an e-mail and let’s talk.

James Dempsey

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Books

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Poetry

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Movies

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Memoir

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Images

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History

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