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Why would the English love to live in ancient Greece? [by Virginia Woolf]
<<< It is the climate [in England] that is impossible. If we try to think of Sophocles here, we must annihilate the smoke and the damp and the thick wet mists. We must sharpen…
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Labyrinth for Solo Piano [by Lera Auerbach]
Labyrinth for Solo PianoInspired by The Book of Imaginary Beings and other writings by J. L. Borges Tomorrow evening, March 27, 2018, I will premiere Labyrinth, a large work for solo…
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Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body: Iliana Rocha
Looking at Women by Iliana Rocha My father taught me how. His curious eyes, perpetually amber from drinking, would scan a woman, rest on a bold curve they liked: tits or ass. He was not…
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“Zeno’s Paradox as Paraphrased by Sholom Aleichem” [by David Lehman with thanks to Maurice Samuel]
In my senior year of college I was nervous about getting drafted and having to go to Vietnam. Morris Simon, father of Rochelle, the curly-haired brunette on whom I had a crush, was…
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The Cliff Robertson Quiz
What was Cliff Robertson's most memorable role? as JFK in "PT 109" as the Nixon-like Cantwell in "The Best Man" as the guy who loses Kim Novak to William Holden in "Picnic" as the…
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