Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
Sean MurphyShe had a silver car. Here’s how you know someone has gotten to you: when, a week, or a month, or a year (or more) after they’ve left your life,…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
What are you seeing, exactly? Yourself, in a tux? Maybe marriage was the secret. You’ve felt nothing at all like envy for your friends who had wedded—happily or not—and especially…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
Take a guy. Let’s say he’s about my age: old enough to own his own condo and pay almost all his bills, who is young enough to be unmarried but…
The Howling or, 105 Years of the Big Bad Wolf
Who's afraid of the big, bad Wolf? Plenty of people, and for good reason. Fortunately for us, we are not sketchy record company executives or anyone else who may have…
Wagner at 200 or, Get Your Götterdämmerung On (Revisited)
Or, If Loving Wagner is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Reich. (More on one of the most complex and controversial composers ever, who was born 200 years ago today,…
The 50 Greatest Hockey Enforcer Names of All Time
I. Hockey rules, eh? ARE YOU WATCHING THE hockey playoffs? Don’t worry, no one else is either. Except for the relative handful of us who understand it’s the greatest, if least…