The Narrow Path: A Tone Poem for Christmas
Sean MurphyYou are alone. You are back in the city and you are alone as you...
My Kind of Christmas Music (Revisited)
Tchaikovsky Corelli Bach A couple from John Fahey The Who Chuck Berry a three-fer from...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex (In Fiction)
WRITING ABOUT SEX is like engaging in sex: it’s hard. Or, it should be. It’s...
Brooklyn Reading #8: Drinking
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: The Play’s The Thing (Revisited)
Spoiler alert: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die. They are, in fact, already dead. And they always...
Peter O’Toole, R.I.P. (Revisited)
They’re all gone. Burton, then Harris, then Reed, then Taylor. And now, O’Toole. Yes, it...
Sui generis on the rocks: Christopher Hitchens (Revisited)
The best way to compliment a writer, as a reader, is to recommend their work...
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality (Revisited)
6/09: Anyone who happened to miss this piece by Lakhdar Boumediene, entitled My Guantánamo Nightmare should...
Brooklyn Reading #7: Not To Mention A Nice Life
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus...
7 + 1 From McCoy Tyner For His 76th
McCoy Tyner turns 76 years young today. In a saner and more soulful world, Tyner...