Moby Dick, Martin Scorsese, and Making a Literary Life
Sean MurphyImage courtesy of The New Yorker November 14, 1851 Quick, literary folks: why is this date important? Hint: Call Me Ishmael. Yes, on this day 172 years ago, Herman Melville…
Hipgnosis is the Gift that Keeps Giving
The image above --no matter how immediately recognizable or important it happens to be to you-- is more significant than you may realize. If you don't know it, or understand…
Every Day is Veterans Day
I. Personal Remember when Born in the U.S.A. was ubiquitous? The album and the song. Springsteen was already a big deal, but he wasn't ubiquitous. (A lot more on how Bruce went…
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ALYSON WEINBERG, AUTHOR OF ‘BELLOW & HISS’
Check it out: Alyson Gold Weinberg serves as a poetic tour guide for how it feels and what it signifies to be a human being, taking us from embryos to…