Original Poem: Sustenance
Sean MurphyIt’s an honor, every time, to have any literary magazine accept your work, and it’s...
James Gandolfini: Ten Years Gone
Man. Ten years ago, today (and it seemed an intolerably premature death to me, at...
A Story about Storytelling
What are you going to do, teach? This was the question. It’s what everyone asked, what...
Cormac McCarthy: A Hero for Those in Need of Anti-Heroes
Cormac McCarthy was, like another uber-masculine (albeit polar opposite, aesthetically) writer of the old school, Philip...
AI Will Not Replace Art
“Etonne-moi!” —Serge Diaghilev, to Jean Cocteau Adam Gopnik, the prolific and brilliant writer whose work...
1993 + 30 = Saturn (or, a Sun Ra Sampler)
Thirty years ago, today, Herman Poole Blount, aka Sonny Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, aka...
Happy Trails, Peter Brown
Never heard of him? Don’t worry, you’ve heard him, nevertheless. Unless you’ve managed to go...
Original Poem: St. Elmo’s Fire
Once again the team at The Blue Mountain Review (led by the indefatigable Charles Clifford...
The Style’s the Thing: The Inimitable Martin Amis
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. — Martin Amis Milan Kundera came to...
Tina Tuner: Twilight of the Goddess
Wow. Another irreplaceable icon has departed a planet that could scarcely contain her. Tina Turner:...