RETRO: McCarthy vs. Mailer in 1963
FOR MY MOTHER: MARY ANN MOORE (nee: FABISH) At the March on Washington [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom] in August 1963, author Norman Mailer [https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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).
RETRO: Patricia Bosworth - Strictly on the Record
The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan. What a hell of a title! And it’s now out in paperback. A review of actress and acclaimed biographer, Patricia Bosworth's new memoir.
RETRO: Into That Darkness
Retrospective on post-liberation stories from Buchenwald concentration camp.
RETRO: Lowney Handy, James Jones, and Their Colony
MJ Moore's piece on novelist James Jones and Lowney Handy's countercultural writers' group, The Colony.
RETRO: At the Ritz in Paris: August 1944 (Fiction/Excerpt)
For Paula McLain RELATED POSTS 10 Films to Stream This Women’s History Month [https:...
RETRO: Blow-Top Blues
In our CANNABIS print issue, RETRO columnist M.J. Moore explores the winding history of the plant in 20th century American culture, as well as its relationship with jazz. Here are the stories, compiled in a special “director’s cut”.
RETRO: Going to Meet the Man
Back in 1985, on the morning of November 23 (a cold, wet, gray autumn Saturday)...
RETRO: The 1968 Mountaintop - Dr. King's Mythic Final Speech
Revisiting Dr. King's mythical final speech.
RETRO: Tight Connection to My Heart
It was 1972. My cool uncle and his girlfriend allowed me to tag along when...
RETRO: December 7, 1941
“Pearl Harbor, when they passed it, was a shambles. Wheeler Field had been bad, but...
RETRO: Thanksgiving 1970
Nobody else can host the whole tribe for such a dinner, so once again (and totally to my delight) it’s time to help Dad throughout another Thanksgiving gathering.
RETRO: My Hours with Elie
On a crisp, cool late autumn night in 1990, Elie Wiesel sat on stage in an auditorium at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, delivering an hour-long lecture, followed by a question-and-answer session. I stared in disbelief.
RETRO: The Gallery at 70
FOR DAVID MARGOLICK In 1947, John Horne Burns [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horne_...
RETRO: Surrealism 101: A Night in August 1944 (Fiction/Excerpt)
(This excerpt is from the author’s forthcoming novelFor Paris ~ With Love and Squalor.) I’...
RETRO: August 1966: A Siege in Chicago
I backtrack in my mind and finally get a fix on the confrontation that happened...
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