The Beatles' "Now And Then": Echoes Of An Era
The Beatles' final song, "Now And Then," remains a strong chart-topper weeks after its release, and sixty years after the iconic band's introduction to American audiences.
MJ Moore
M.J. Moore is Honeysuckle Magazine’s RETRO columnist. He’s the author of Mario Puzo ~ An American Writer’s Quest, and For Paris ~ with Love & Squalor (A Novel).
Catherine Hiller's "Cybill Unbound": A Novel Of One Woman's Eros
Catherine Hiller's latest novel "Cybill Unbound" is the tale of a sexual adventurer who, from her 40s onward, explores episodic rendezvous through the past turbulent decades of American history.
Ghosts and Their Echoes: Larry Baker's Novel "Harry and Sue" Is A Story of Love and Ghosts
MJ Moore brings us into Larry Baker's more recent novel, Harry and Sue: A Story of Love and Ghosts, featuring American Hollywood stars, magic, mystery, love, and death.
"Dangerous Rhythms": T.J. English's Book Explores Links Between American Jazz and Organized Crime
In his new book "Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld," T.J. English examines how racial politics and some of the 20th century's greatest criminals were essential to the evolution of American Jazz.
Searching for Harry Chapin's America: A 50th Anniversary Tribute
Pat Fenton's new book SEARCHING FOR HARRY CHAPIN'S AMERICA honors the singer-songwriter's golden legacy of transporting audiences through evocative ballads.
"Father Hunger" and Private Agonies: Life Lessons from Erica Heller and Joanna Acevedo's New Books
Yearning for those we lost, past and present, defines Erica Heller's ONE LAST LUNCH and Joanna Acevedo's UNSAID THINGS in unique ways.
Two New Books Confront Trauma: Stumbling Home and The Swimmer
Overlapping themes of personal freedom, newfound self-determination, and individual autonomy are at the heart of...
35 Best Indie Books for Holiday Reading
So, to find the right gift books for your loved ones, consider the unique titles...
In the Belly of the Beast: A Mythic New Novel in Wasteland
Under the omnipresent dark clouds of COVID-19, with conditions ranging from dicey to dangerous, classes...
From Incarceration to Activism: Grace Detravarah's Battle Against the System
Self-described “rebel” Grace Detravarah ran away to New York City in 1983 – when she was...
The Trailblazing Genius of Duke Ellington
In light of the recent Black Lives Matter movement, the owner of the Washington Redskins,...
RETRO: The Four Faces of Daphne in The Schrodinger Girl
Ms. Brett has created a powerful novel that mirrors the disorienting, discombobulating essence of 2020 but which unfolds, in fact, in the late 1960s.
RETRO: Patricia Bosworth - Strictly on the Record
If there is one classical myth serving as a leitmotif in this riveting, startling, and heartrending memoir by acclaimed biographer and former stage-and-screen actress Patricia Bosworth, it is the heralded Phoenix myth.
Remembering American Novelist James Jones
Compassion is a leitmotif in Jones’s work, along with isolation, loneliness, rage, fear, violence, and the agonies of men and women yearning for release from the constrictions of their lives; yearning to be elsewhere — anywhere else.
Long Before the Hippies: Bohemian Americana in Greenwich Village After WW II
"Like the Village itself, the New School was at its best in 1946. After a war, civilization feels like a luxury, and people went to the New School the way you go to a party, almost like going abroad.Education was chic and sexy in those days. It was not yet open to the public."
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