Tag: Pope Brock

Just No

From Charleston, South Carolina, once slavery central, comes the world’s worst Christmas ornament: Song of the Day: I’m...

I’ve just been reading Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man again and discovered something odd in it. Well, two...

In delighted receipt today of the complete box set of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, recently released a mere...

The other day I ran across one of my old reporter’s notebooks in which I found raw notes...

Prompted by the Fosse/Verdon eight-parter, I’ve been following Chicago in its many manifestations backward into the past. Among...

For reasons that need not detain us I recently bought a South African cookbook published in 1891. Old...

The touch of malicious joy I expected to feel about this news story didn’t materialize because the whole...

Like all old saws, the old saw that the past is another country isn’t always true as the...

A new book about the ad business, The Adman’s Dilemma, brings to light a rare attempt to monetize...

I’m fresh from seeing a very strange movie called Titanic. Not the one with Kate Winslet and the...

Here’s some outstanding creative writing advice from British novelist Muriel Spark. It’s the opening of her novel Finishing...

Now and then I come across a song on Youtube I’d love to play on my radio show,...