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“Philip Levine Still Knows How to Make Trouble”
Our new poet laureate was interviewed for the NY Times Magazine and the results can be found here. Phil speaks of the worst job he ever had in Detroit ("Chevrolet gear and axle. I…
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Was Voltaire great? Nero Wolfe weighs in . . .
At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big questions was, could a man be called great on account of…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Lowell Jaeger, poet, and editor of Many Voices Press
NA Tell me about Many Voices Press. Where is it located? What kind of work are you looking for? How many books do you publish each year? LJ Many Voices Press was founded in…
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Ozu7 by Lewis Saul
*52. Akibiyori (Late Autumn) (11/13/60) (125 min.) [Sound Color] [buy it here] A girl lives with her mother. Though she has had opportunities to marry, she refused, preferring to stay at home. The widowed mother,…
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Stephen Sondheim, Musical Theater’s Wordsmith Par Excellence — By Earle Hitchner (guest blogger during October 23-29)
First, buy, rent, or check out of your local library Sondheim! The Birthday Concert, a 116-minute DVD issued in 2010 that contains several stunning performances of songs chosen from musicals composed wholly or partly…
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“Definition” [by Herb Engelhardt]
It must be loveWhen you feelAffection at the sight Of her underpantsIn a small heapOn the floor — Herb Engelhardt
