If I Could Wave My Magic Wand… (Revisited)
Sean Murphy(Editor's note: Rush's last great album (in my opinion), Presto, was released this week, in 1989. A quarter-century ago. Yikes. Here is a piece I wrote in October, 2009) ***…
Brooklyn Reading #4: Waiting Room
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus the bongos and clove cigarettes. As such, New York City was a mandatory locale; Brooklyn…
Brooklyn Reading #3: As Opposed To Prayer
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus the bongos and clove cigarettes. As such, New York City was a mandatory locale; Brooklyn…
I Talk to the Wind*
On the dissolving horizon the sky looks good enough to eat: orange sorbet on a dark purple plate; overhead black birds want in on the action, circling one another, entwined…
The Problem with The Homeless Problem
THERE IS A MAN who sits near the pumps at the gas station I drive by each day. The man is very obviously from somewhere else and has about him…
Brooklyn Reading #2: Conversation
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus the bongos and clove cigarettes. As such, New York City was a mandatory locale; Brooklyn…
The Fall Classic: 25 Years Ago (Revisited)
I don’t believe what I just saw! No one else in the room could believe it, either. Kirk Gibson had, before our eyes and on television, done something so improbable,…
Brooklyn Reading #1: Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone
May 29, 2014. It was billed as a throwback to the old Beatnik days, minus the bongos and clove cigarettes. As such, New York City was a mandatory locale; Brooklyn…
The Brown Sisters: Forty Portraits That Tell us Nothing, and Everything
Life and Art combine to create something that is representative of the best both are capable of achieving. I have little I can, or want to, add to the pictures…
Winchester Book Gallery: Another Reading (Revisited, one year later)
Anyone who has written a book wants to see it in a bookstore. To have a reading, in a bookstore, is both a dream and, for a variety of inevitable…