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Michael [J.] Lally Weighs In on College Loans [by David Lehman]
Readers of this column know that I enjoy reporting on news stories featuring namesakes of greatly beloved and important people. Usually the new people with the great old name have chosen professions you would…
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Marilyn Monroe as Chanteuse [by David Lehman]
We don't think of her as a singer, but Marilyn Monroe (whose birthday it is) sang. Unlike Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in Pal Joey, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood…
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Advice from Sinatra and Riddle, Van Heusen and Cahn: “Come Blow Your Horn” [by David Lehman]
Like Marilyn MonroeNelson Riddle [left] was borntoday (the first of June)so let's blow his horn (a trombone):with this catchy tune — DL <<<The taller the tree is, the sweeter the peachI'll give you the…
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“Lunching with Elaine Equi” [by David Lehman]
Sometimes, when lunching alone, I bring Elaine Equi along for company,rereading Ripple Effect sipping a cup of strong black coffee and slippinginto the room where Fairfield Porter paints the light, and solituderhymes with altitude,…
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On the Erotic in Poetry and Literature (part I) [by David Lehman]
In My Secret Life (c. 1890), that classic work of late Victorian pornography, the author, an anonymous gentleman with a raging libido and the compulsion to repeat and record his…
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Next Line, Please: Homage to Anna Kamienska [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Last week on Next Line, Please the notoriously clever David Lehman proposed two of Anna Kamienska’s aphorisms—“Sleep is what I’ll miss most when I die,” and “I walk around disguised as an overweight old lady”—as…
