Got Music?
I've been invited by Largehearted Boy, a website of literature and music, to come up with a playlist for my...
06 February, 2011
Halloween And the Seventh Seal
Last night I watched for the first time Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Forgive me, cinema highbrows, but I've long...
24 September, 2010
Why Lady Gaga Rules
Lady Gaga, my god, I had no idea who she was, only caught her in glimpses, heard her topping...
15 June, 2010
Baltimore’s Literary Cabaret
Last Saturday, Baltimore writers and musicians gathered at the G-Spot Audio-Visual Playground for the city's second Literary Cabaret. The Literary...
13 May, 2010
Why Writing?
I just returned from the amazing annual conference of AWP (the Association of Writers and Writing Programs), which must...
13 April, 2010
Alex Chilton and “The Letter”
Last week, rock singer/guitarist/band leader Alex Chilton died of a heart attack. Not unusual for a 59-year-old these days. If...
25 March, 2010
The Go-For-Broke Comic
If you were under the age of 10 or 12 and lived in the New York metro area during the...
02 November, 2009