The Wild, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle at 50
Sean MurphyBelieve it or not, Bruce Springsteen wasn’t always the Boss. In fact, he paid persistent...
Roll the Stone Away: Jethro Tull’s ‘A Passion Play’ at 50
During the years between my senior year in high school and my sophomore year of...
September 11
(From 9/11/21.) An absolutely gorgeous, cloudless September day, just like 20 years ago. I spent...
Labor Day Rant: Unpaid Internships are Evil
First off, with very few exceptions, unpaid internships are immoral and disgusting. Any business, especially...
For My Mother, on Her 80th Birthday
i. August 2002 – August 2023 (August 23, 1943 – August 23, 2023) Twenty-one years,...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH BEN PURKERT, AUTHOR OF ‘THE MEN CAN’T BE SAVED’
Writers strikes. Fear and Loathing of all-things-AI. Cutbacks within the industry and academia. One could be forgiven for assuming...
8/15/79: Apocalypse Now
Released in theaters on this date, 44 years ago. Anyone out there who has not...
Robbie Robertson: The Man in the Band
When it comes to The Band, I’ve always been inflexible in my opinion that their...
Be at Peace, Sweet Sinéad
She was brave. She was beautiful. She was brilliant. We all found our lives enriched...
The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Why Milan Kundera Matters
i. Kundera almost killed me, still in my creative cradle, a writer needing nourishment. He...