-
“I Don’t Think I’ll Fall in Love Today” [by George & Ira]
"Did you pick that cravat?" "I did that." "Here's your hat."And here are Nancy Walker and David Craig with the same number. . . "Don't you know how to cook?""I can look / in a…
-
A Delphic Minute with Andrei Codrescu
It isn't often that one has a gaggle of virgin writers on one's desk, ready to answer any question, important, trivial, philosophically or gastro-erotically significant..Thus, an earnest question meets a prophetic answer. (With an…
-
Harry James plays, Helen Forrest sings, Woody Allen listens [by DL]
"I know it well, that melody. . ."This was the first venture of the team of Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, who wrote many of Sinatra's songs from the late 40s ("Time After Time,"…
-
Andrei Codrescu, Guest Author February 5-9
photo (c) Eduard Koller This week we welcome Andrei Codrescu as our guest author. Andrei's recent books are Bibliodeath (My Archives with Life in Footnotes) (2012) and The Art of Forgetting: New Poems (2016). Find out more…
-
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Lafcadio Hearn, the ghost of islands [By Andrei Codrescu]
I signed up to write an introduction to Lafcadio Hearn's collection of ghost stories, to be published by Princeton University Press next year. Hearn lived in New Orleans for a few years in the…
-
“I’ll drink to that”: Bobby Darin does the stars (by DL)
Cagney and Cary Grant don't want to hear any of your lipso here's my friend BrandyI mean Brando mumblingrustic Walter Brennan, the real McCoy,Clark Gable huffyJimmy Stewart that's how it goesyou see Robert Mitchum's…
