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.
Ms. Brett has created a powerful novel that mirrors the disorienting, discombobulating essence of 2020 but which unfolds, in fact, in the late 1960s.
(Note: This is an excerpt adapted from the author’s book MARIO PUZO ~ AN AMERICAN...
For our readers’ pleasure, we present a RETRO short story of love, music, and mail....
It’s before midnight and business is slow at the New Corsica Restaurant, so Kev’...
It’s before midnight and business is slow at the New Corsica Restaurant, so Kev’s off work early and he’s surprised we’re all up and sitting there, gathered around the tube. He works really hard as a busboy on weekend nights. I’m glad he’s home early. When my big brother’...
A century after Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos served in World War I, their messages linger in our memories and hearts.
FOR JULIA SCHOPICK “I caught the bus at midnight, aware that I was leaving for...
FOR MY MOTHER: MARY ANN MOORE (nee: FABISH) At the March on Washington [https://en....
It was 1972. My cool uncle and his girlfriend allowed me to tag along when...
“Pearl Harbor, when they passed it, was a shambles. Wheeler Field had been bad, but...
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.
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.
FOR DAVID MARGOLICK In 1947, John Horne Burns [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horne_...
(This excerpt is from the author’s forthcoming novelFor Paris ~ With Love and Squalor.) I’...
Novelist James Jones arrived with a blockbuster in 1951: From Here to Eternity smashed sales...