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2022: A Creative Recap
From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 13 (peruse the complete archives, here). So, what’s next? It’s possible...
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It continues to be a joy and honor to have my work appear –alongside so...
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There are two ways to describe what a big deal it was to receive this...
The Fire Sermon: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, Longfellow wrote, and we’d already read it—words largely...
Christine McVie: RIP, Songbird
She was beautiful, preternaturally cool (has any singer of so many incandescent and indelible hit...
1455’s Movable Type, Issue 13: The Story
Having offered our first live programming since Covid shut the world down, it’s at once...
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
So It Goes: Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut (written after his death in 2007 and included...
The Killer: He Didn’t Want to Miss Out on Great
“If I had it all to do over, I’d do the same thing again. I...
Deliver Me From Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ at 40
Perhaps because of what followed—the next album, the acclaim—Springsteen’s decision to make the ultimate lo-fi...