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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…
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Song: “Up to Me” [ by Amy Lingafelter ]
I started thinking about this because of “Up to Me”, which I know from the box set Biograph (1985), but was apparently meant for Blood on the Tracks (1975). It’s not even like my…
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Publishers Weekly on David Lehman’s “Lively and affectionate” Sinatra’s Century
Sinatra’s Century by David Lehman In this set of affectionate and vibrant fan’s notes, poet and critic Lehman (A Fine Romance) celebrates Ol’ Blue Eyes’s 100th birthday (December 12) with 100 impressionistic reflections on the…
