Art. Ensemble. Of. Chicago.
Sean MurphyIt’s cold here in DC. There is dirty slush in the streets. We are facing...
Straight, No Chaser
This Sunday’s New York Times magazine features a lengthy, but worthwhile appraisal of John Cheever by Charles McGrath. The...
Mardi gras in my mind
Mardi gras makes me think of New Orleans and all the good things I associate...
Meet the New Dross
Smug? Check. A face you have an irrepressible compulsion to punch? Check. Ambitious as he is talentless? Yup....
A Planet of Playthings
While writing about Flannery O’Connor the other day, I made the half-serious, half-sardonic observation that...
Send Another Moses
While the Republicans continue to reel, and dig themselves a bit further into that crevasse (while,...
Careful with that Axe, Jindal
Note to GOP. This guy: Is going to inspire about as much confidence as these...
“In my stories is where I live.”
Of few writers can it more accurately be said that it is the work, not...
Funding for the Arts–the old fashioned way
From Folio: After months of negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service over thousands of...
Do You Believe in Miracles?
On Feb. 22, 1980, in a stunning upset, the United States Olympic hockey team defeated...