Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind
Staff Reporter
xavier.blackwell-lipkind@yale.edu
Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind is a staff writer for the Yale Daily News Magazine. He previously served as a copy staffer for the News. Originally from West Hartford, Connecticut, Xavier is a Davenport sophomore studying comparative literature.
Author Archive
XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
FICTION: Seven Ways of Looking at a Backhoe

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing    And it was going to snow.    The blackbird sat    In the cedar-limbs. —Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of […]

February 24, 2022

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
A Big Ferry in a Bigger Sea

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve taken the ferry from Bridgeport, CT, to Port Jefferson, NY, where my grandma lives in a house […]

December 10, 2021

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
FEATURE: ‘Gray Area’: College Admissions and the Private Counseling Machine

When Logan Roberts ’23 told a teacher he was considering applying to Yale, she replied with three words: “Oh, that’s sweet.” Roberts grew up in […]

April 29, 2021

Anasthasia Shilov
XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
Madredeus at Midnight

A little more than a week ago, on a dull gray Saturday, I heard a song I had long forgotten, or maybe never really known: […]

April 15, 2021

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
FICTION: Much of Anything

My name is Theo Abelson, and I live in a gray middle-class house on a street of gray middle-class houses in central Connecticut, and I’m […]

March 14, 2021

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
FICTION: Mr. Yerigan

Yale Daily News Magazine · Mr. Yerigan Notes for 3/14                                                Am I only one who hates strip-mall high-school-rivalry walks-around-the-reservoir suburban lifestyle? Today Mr. Yerigan (proud, […]

January 31, 2021

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
On Home and Other Homes

My house is a gray box on a corner in a neighborhood of boxes. I’ve lived here my whole life. It’s filled with books and […]

October 15, 2020

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND & ISAAC YU
Virtual Venue: Sharon Ahn, Amara. and Sofía Campoamor

Yale student musicians often showcase their work at venues on campus and beyond, but the coronavirus pandemic flatlined live performances for the duration of the […]

October 13, 2020

XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
Confusion spreads after email incorrectly suggests Yale COVID-19 policy uses financial aid as punishment

An email sent by a peer liaison to their group of PLees last Friday incorrectly suggested that students who attend gatherings that break multiple clauses […]

October 9, 2020

PHOEBE LIU & XAVIER BLACKWELL-LIPKIND
Virtual Venue: Wacomo, Coup(e) Del Mar and Ale Campillo

Yale student musicians often showcase their work at venues on campus and beyond, but the coronavirus pandemic flatlined live performances for the duration of the […]

September 16, 2020