The Fire Sermon: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
Sean MurphyArt is long, and Time is fleeting, Longfellow wrote, and we’d already read it—words largely...
Christine McVie: RIP, Songbird
She was beautiful, preternaturally cool (has any singer of so many incandescent and indelible hit...
1455’s Movable Type, Issue 13: The Story
Having offered our first live programming since Covid shut the world down, it’s at once...
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
So It Goes: Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut (written after his death in 2007 and included...
The Killer: He Didn’t Want to Miss Out on Great
“If I had it all to do over, I’d do the same thing again. I...
Deliver Me From Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ at 40
Perhaps because of what followed—the next album, the acclaim—Springsteen’s decision to make the ultimate lo-fi...
Original Poem: RICHARD PRYOR ON THE SUNSET STRIP, 1982: AN EXEGESIS
I consider Richard Pryor’s Live in Concert (’79) the single best stand up special in...
Original Poem: Lightnin’ Hopkins’s Bottle
It’s a thrill to once again grace the pages of The Blue Mountain Review. As...
Steadfast and Inimitable: The Sound & Vision of Pharoah Sanders
Not a fan of Led Zeppelin, The Clash’s Paul Simonon once opined: “Just looking at...
Celebrating Sue Mingus
Sad to hear the news of Sue Mingus’s passing, but am here to celebrate an...