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“When Sinatra Campaigned for FDR” [by David Lehman]
<<<When Sinatra met Humphrey Bogart, the star of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon said that he’d heard Sinatra knew how to make women faint. “Make me faint,” Bogart said. Sinatra’s faint-inducing ability was also on the agenda…
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“Beyond the Sea” (1959 & 1973): Bobby Darin’s great nostalgia trip
No more sailin'. . . Happy birthday, Bobby (May 14, 1969 — December 20, 1973). He gave an amazing nine-minute performance of "Beyond the Sea" in 1973, the year he died. (There's a full-length…
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Squibs 419-421 [by Alan Ziegler]
419: I walk the late afternoon streets. A cop enters a coffee shop to get something to-go, leaving his partner outside. The partner paces, lonely, wondering what’s taking so long. The faint moon is lonely…
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Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov—Soviet Texts (Terence Winch)
Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov (1940–2007) died of a heart attack on the Moscow metro at age 66. An artist of incisive comic genius with a taste for the bizarre, he would no doubt have found…
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Book Jackets on Display
Some beautiful art owes its birth to commercial necessity — the book jacket, for example. The Association of University Presses is displaying 49 of their best covers from 2019 at a virtual trade…
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Julius Jaffe: The Analects (4) (by Mitch Sisskind)
JUDGMENT Seeing that Herman Fishman was about to step on an ant, Julius Jaffe urgently intervened to let the ant pass. He said, "When a judgment against a man has been rendered in the…
