5THWAVE - Issue 31
Author: World Coffee Portal, Catalog: 5THWAVE - Issue 31 Published: Jun 22, 2026
I'm an American writer, editor and educator with a fondness for transatlantic culture clashes, strong coffee, and sentence-level precision. I contribute regularly to The American Magazine, where I write on language, theater, music, travel, cultural identity, and the absurdities that emerge when worlds collide.
My work combines commentary, humor, and memoir, and has also appeared in Practical Parenting, The Hackney Hive and I am about to be featured The National Association for Teachers of English blog.
Based in London, available for commissions and collaborations. Always interested in thoughtful editing gigsāand arguments about the Oxford comma.
Author: World Coffee Portal, Catalog: 5THWAVE - Issue 31 Published: Jun 22, 2026
Southern US states are enjoying an economic boom thanks to multi-billion tech giant investments, business-friendly taxes and skilled migration from across the country - and coffee chains are seeking a slice of the action, reports Pete Lawler
From zines to protest poetry, an East London college has transformed the Extended Project Qualification into a year-long creative writing incubator
Particularly popular paranormal podcast hits the stage
Pete Lawler finds out how San Francisco-based Blue Bottle Coffee, New Jersey's Rook and Seattle's Boon Boona are amplifying their independent ethos without distorting the message
It's now possible to walk all the way through London along the Thames Path, enhanced by a new public art project
Has iced Arabica met its matcha? We find the latest coffee (and tea) trends at the annual java-lovers' convention
The Anglophile playwright discusses How To Fight Loneliness , his shocking yet funny play about death, and why monologues are theater's secret weapon
An American's guide to the quintessential British Christmas experience
Can a place be too 'Irishy Irishy'? Peter Lawler goes west - as far west as possible - to find out.