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Remembering Ted Kennedy [by Tom Healy]
Ed note: I've been corresponding lately with poet Tom Healy because around here we're excited about his new book of poems What the Right Hand Knows and we're working out the particulars of his…
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The Great Baseball Song (by Larry Epstein)
It's the roaring wave of noise, the crack of the bat, the dazzling flow of the grass across the field, the throat-killing cheers and boos, the willing suspension of disbelief that this is just…
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Available Surfaces IV: Earth Angel [T. R. Hummer]
. . . .for beauty is God's handwriting." –Ralph Waldo Emerson The first time I flew to England, I woke up from a troubled airplane sleep and looked out the plane’s porthole. We were…
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Happy Birthday Prez! Jamie Katz’s tribute in Smithsonian
The great jazz saxophonist Lester Young (left, with Billie Holiday) would have turned 100 this August 27th and our friend Jamie Katz has a moving tribute to "the Prez" over at Smithsonian. One of…
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More Murder, Hollywood Style, or The Magnate Did It (by Laura Orem)
Last week, I wrote about the unsolved 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor. This week, I thought it would be fun to continue by writing about another mysterious Hollywood death of the silent…
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Available Surfaces III: Mrs. Quack and Miss Cuckoo [T.R. Hummer]
Lay on, Macduff,/ And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" —William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5 scene 8 Mrs. Quack sat at her desk in front of the class, striking a classic Quack…
