Once in Love With Mary
In delighted receipt today of the complete box set of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, recently released a mere...
Roxies Hart
Prompted by the Fosse/Verdon eight-parter, I’ve been following Chicago in its many manifestations backward into the past. Among...
Anchovies and Sheep
For reasons that need not detain us I recently bought a South African cookbook published in 1891. Old...
Poetry in Motion
A new book about the ad business, The Adman’s Dilemma, brings to light a cool attempt to monetize...
Titanic Under Alles
I’m fresh from seeing a very strange movie called Titanic. It is indeed another film about the sinking, the...
Too Misty
Outstanding creative writing advice via Muriel Spark. This is the opening of her novel Finishing School: “You begin,”...
Wondrous Italian Clarinet Player and Some Russians in Evening Wear
Now and then I come across a song on Youtube I’d love to play on my radio show,...
Goat Testicles in Other Hands
I got a check this week from my agent, payment connected to my book Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous...
Rosa Bathurst
I was in Rome not long ago and went to visit the graveyard where Keats and Shelley are...
Went to See the — No, I Can’t Say It
“Actors’ Equity Association…announced this week that it would cease using the title ‘Gypsy Robe’ to describe one of its most...
Melodious Veep
You know the song “All in the Game”? (“Many a tear has to fall/But it’s all in the...