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).
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.
Pat Fenton's new book SEARCHING FOR HARRY CHAPIN'S AMERICA honors the singer-songwriter's golden legacy of transporting audiences through evocative ballads.
Yearning for those we lost, past and present, defines Erica Heller's ONE LAST LUNCH and Joanna Acevedo's UNSAID THINGS in unique ways.
Overlapping themes of personal freedom, newfound self-determination, and individual autonomy are at the heart of...
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Under the omnipresent dark clouds of COVID-19, with conditions ranging from dicey to dangerous, classes...
Self-described “rebel” Grace Detravarah ran away to New York City in 1983 – when she was...
In light of the recent Black Lives Matter movement, the owner of the Washington Redskins,...
Ms. Brett has created a powerful novel that mirrors the disorienting, discombobulating essence of 2020 but which unfolds, in fact, in the late 1960s.
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.
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.
"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."
For Denzel Washington The Coronavirus pandemic (aka: COVID-19) has rapidly transformed America into a scared,...
Everything Holden says about missing and loving his dead brother Allie, and his kid sister Phoebe, stirs me up. His distress about school, parents, girls, sex, adults, and “phonies” registers with me. Pernnially.
One thing led to another. I kept reading and my spirit soared as Malcolm X’s vivid recollections of the Roseland Ballroom in Boston in the 1940s echoed off the pages.
