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“Tears Dry On Their Own” by Amy Winehouse [ Amy Lingafelter ]
I worried that confessing to still having an in-my-head version of my teenaged notebooks of song lyrics would seem less than adult or academic. Even worse, I worried that it would seem girlish. Girlish. …
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“Tom Ames’ Prayer” by Steve Earle [ Amy Lingafelter ]
Sometimes it’s the whole story of song that gets me. See “Tom Ames’ Prayer” by Steve Earle on Train a Comin’ (1995). It's a supreme argument for the existence of God, or not.…
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“Mississippi Goddam” by Nina Simone [Amy Lingafelter]
“It’s a very moving violent song, because that’s how I feel about the whole thing.” Nina Simone has been with me. For at least 20 years now. If she’s been with you, you know…
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Andrea Beltran on Laurie Ann Guerrero’s “A Crown for Gumecindo”
(Ed. note: Laurie Ann Guerrero was a guest author here a few weeks ago. She described her experience of writing a crown of sonnets as way to cope with her grief over the death…
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Tales of the Fifties (and Beyond): Poker Faces [by Alan Ziegler]
My parents’ poker game starts in Brooklyn on Friday nights. I fall asleep to poker chatter leaking into the bedroom I share with my sister: Pair of deuces. Possible flush. No help. One poker…
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P.G. Wodehouse, the Nazis, and Ozymandias (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
I recently watched the British comedy series Jeeves and Wooster for the third time since its release in the early 1990s. While viewers are never in danger of being exposed to an idea, the…
