The Pickup Corduroy Logo Hat MusicThe Pickup is a digital publication from This Land Press that covers Tulsa from the ground up. We bring a critical eye, local savvy, and an irreverent point of view to stories about Tulsa arts and culture, food, public affairs, opinions, and Tulsa lore. In the tradition of This Land, The Pickup offers alternatives to mainstream narratives and on the ground perspectives on why this city is the way it isand what might make it better for more people.
THE GATES OF TUNIS Keija Parssinen explores love’s many facets in this ethnic mosaic of friendship
and heartbreaking personal essays
The Gold and the Glory: David Fritze offers a 1970s perspective on the construction and aspirations of Oral Robets’ wacky faith-healing hospital
Sarah Brown
A NEW DAY Molly Bullock reports on the uneven
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a self-taught civil rights advocate and genealogist
THE TIME I SHOT DONALD TRUMP: Juan Reinoso recalls working with a very rich republican
the collected texts address the contradictions between stereotyping and good intentions
While homeless and working full-time at Petsmart
Scalpel: David Schneider describes the painful precision of performing a shoulder surgery: cutting skin feels like slicing open a fresh peach
he crippled a family legacy