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…And the Poets are Budding [by Emily Deming]
Post 6 from Emily Deming, Mallard Cottage’s Writer-in Residence, St. John’s Newfoundland I took last week off from daily work and home-life to be both horribly sick and to celebrate a friend’s fortieth birthday…
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“Oh that was a voice and that was a band” Remembering Al Bowlly [by Michael Palma]
On the night of April 16-17, 1941, the Luftwaffe conducted a raid over London. Several hours after midnight, two bombs fell into Jermyn Street, causing extensive damage and killing 23 people. One of the…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Carrie Olivia Adams and Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean Press
DD: Walter Benjamin tells us that all great literature either dissolves a genre or invents one. Your own poetry, Carrie, and much of the poetry in the Black Ocean catalogue, either dissolves a genre…
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It’s a dog’s life… [by Steven Rea]
I don't think a book is going to happen with this set of photographs, but I've got a couple of portfolios' worth of images of, yes, movie stars with dogs — professional Hollywood canines,…
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Chet Baker sings… [by Steven Rea]
Earlier this week I was writing up my review of Born to Be Blue, Robert Budreau's appropriately jazzy tribute to the great trumpeter and singer Chet Baker — with Ethan Hawke in the lead as…
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Skip your afternoon coffee: listen to this instead. Sinatra sings “The Coffee Song”
When Steven Rea agreed to blog this week, I immediately thought of this song in connection with his new book Hollywood Cafe: Coffee With the Stars. I promise that if you listen to it you…
