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Tom Lasorda on Frank Sinatra (happy birthday, Frank)
<<< Today is Frank Sinatra's birthday. We should all celebrate because he was a tremendous man who touched many, many lives. He did something for me that I never ever thought possible, and that…
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Orestes (by Mitch Sisskind)
Who then were the chiefs and the lords of the Danaans?I could not tell the multitude of them nor name them, not if I had ten tongues and ten mouths,not if I had a…
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Five Great Mystery Anthologies [by David Lehman]
A Catalogue of Crime By Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Harper & Row, 1971 Say you want to read a novel by a prolific crime author such as Agatha Christie…
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Next Line, Please: A Hole in One [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week, we were invited to play a game of word golf, a prompt which lets our imagination go as we try to solve a puzzle composed of slightly altered end words. Who had…
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An Interview with Nicole Santalucia (by Nin Andrews)
Ever since my interview with January Gill O’Neil, I have been thinking about the question of truth in poetry, especially in confessional and autobiographical poetry. So, a few weeks ago, I had the…
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Joyeuses Fêtes: “La Petite Collection” lets you sample 100 of the best Paris artists [by Tracy Danison]
"La Petite Collection" 2018 exhibition of original post-card size miniatures by contemporary French visual artists takes place from 6 to 15 December at Galerie Bertrand Grimont, 42-44 rue de Montmorency 75002 Paris. Works from…