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“I Never Knew” [with Count Basie in 1940]
and Tommy Dorsey, too, in 1938: and Benny Goodman, Lester Young and company (1940):
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“Ice” [by Sophie Cabot-Black]
ICE A small animal went out to the middleAnd disappeared. No sign of anythingFurther. At the border, where treesNo longer take root, the brave track, Steadfast, written only so far.We grow quiet enough to…
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“A Day Like Any Other. The Life of James Schuyler” by Nathan Kernan [reviewed by Angela Ball]
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025, 503 pages.) We have long hoped for a biography of James Schuyler. Now, thanks to Nathan Kernan, who also gave us The Diary of James Schuyler, we…
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Graham Greene on Somerset Maugham in 1934
Mr. Maugham represents Maupassant's influence when most English short-story writers of any merit represent Chekov's. Mr. Maugham can write nothing without inspiring confidence ; he is a writer of great deliberation even when his…
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Struttin’ with Some Barbecue: Louis Armstrong, August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971 [by David Lehman]
Struttin with Some Barbecue Born on the 4th of July 1900, if you believe him,or August 4, 1901, if the fact-checker rules;same birthday as Shelley; a Leo, with Aries rising,New Orleans his native city,…
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“The main difference between genius and stupidity ,. . ” [by Albert Einstein]
with thanks to Terence Winch
