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“A Guide for the Perplexed” — chpter. three (by Mitch Sisskind)
I wish to apoligize to my readers for the length of time it's taken me to post this new chapter. The emotional challenges (sniff, sniff, sob) of writing an autobiographical novel are intense, I…
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Ozu5 by Lewis Saul
*45. Ochazuke no aji (Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice) (10/1/52) (115 min.) [Sound B&W] [buy it here] A middle-aged, middle-class couple experience a crisis in their marriage. With no children to create a…
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Ozu4 by Lewis Saul
*41. Kaze no naka no mendori (A Hen in the Wind) (9/20/48) (90 min.) [Sound B&W] [buy it here] A destitute woman is awaiting the demobilization of her husband when her child falls ill.…
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Johnny Cunningham Loved the Poetry of Blake and Burns — By Earle Hitchner (guest blogger during Oct. 23-29)
[NOTE: The freakish pre-winter snowstorm of this past weekend shut down the power, heat, and computer in my Hudson Valley home in New York, and caused me to relocate to precipitation-light southern New Jersey…
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Can’t miss reading: Daniel Nester and Michael Schiavo at the Zinc Bar, NYC
Sunday, November 6, 5:30pm Zinc Bar Poetry Series: Michael Schiavo and Daniel Nester. Zinc Bar, at 82 West 3rd Street, between Sullivan & Thompson, New York City, Greenwich Village. Subway: ACEBDF to West 4th street. NR to…
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“Because it is bitter and because it is my heart. . .”
It is Stephen Crane's birthday. In addition to "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Open Boat," and other superb prose, he wrote poems of terse irony, marvelous enigmatic parables set in bare ruined landscapes.…
