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The New York School Diaspora (Part Four): Barbara Hamby [by Angela Ball]
Ode on My Prison This morning I read about a couple arrested for selling hundreds of tickets to heaven which they said were made from…
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M. F. K. Fisher on the Martini
<< The first Martini I ever drank was strictly medicinal, for threatened seasickness, and in spite of a loyal enjoyment of them which may be increasing in direct ratio to my dwindling selectivity…
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Dick Lourie: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
____________________________________________________________________________ Justice It’s been reported that when the Beatles were introduced to Steve Cropper—white genius of Black Memphis music—the four of them all stood as one and bowed from the waist: an appropriate…
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Thinking of PVT Huy Robert Horowitz on the Anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1944)
During World War II, my father served in the 94th Infantry Division (Company G, 301 Infantry). — sdl
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Alicia in Wonderland: What it’s like to be the only American and only woman in the contentious Oxford Professor of Poetry election [by A. E. Stallings]
It began as quickly and unexpectedly as falling down a rabbit hole, or passing through a mirror—an e-mail arrived, out of the blue, from one of the previous holders of the position, the critic…
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“Pitching a No-Hitter on LSD” [by Walter Carey]
It may be the accomplishment of which he was proudest. He had pitched a no-hitter on LSD. Not even his teammates knew. On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates no-hit the…
