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Have you ever heard Ruth Etting sing?
Doris Day played her in Love Me or Leave Me. That song (music Walter Donaldson, lyric Gus Kahn) was one of her hit numbers; another was Rodgers & Hart's "Ten Cents a Dance." Thank…
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Besieged, assailed, and stormed
Here's an excerpt from a recent live chat transcript between readers, writer Ligaya Mishan, and Paul Muldoon, poet and poetry editor for The New Yorker (and guest editor for BAP 2005): QUESTION: …Contrary to public opinion, good poetry seems to…
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Monday @ KGB: the Manhattan Review
The KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading SeriesHosted by Laura Cronk, Megin Jimenez & Michael Quattrone Presents . . . The Manhattan Review An evening with the Manhattan Review. Editor Phillip Fried will introduce British and American poets: Jeanne…
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Footnoting the pop culture in this week’s ‘Mad Men’
• Early on, Pete cuts off wife Trudy's questions by snapping, "Trudy, stop it with the Ellery Queen." Ellery Queen was, of course, the fictional detective and pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B.…
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This Just In . . . Introducing Praxilla, A New On Line Literary Journal
Laura Orem, whom you know as our correspondent from Red Lion, PA, writes to announce a fine new literary journal, Praxilla. Here's what she says: Praxilla seeks to provide opportunity for writers to offer…
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“It softens the brain . . . ” Vincent van Gogh’s letters
This week's Economist reports that Thames and Hudson has published the 819 surviving letters of Vincent van Gogh. I have a dog-eared 1996 Penguin Classics edition of his selected letters and love to read…
