RETRO: My Lives with Salinger
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.
Retro
A Tale of Two Stoners
From investment advisors to avid smokers, weed is thriving as we ring in 2020.
Alcohol & One Writer’s Boyhood
By M. J. Moore In his short story “Just Like the Girl” (with its sardonic epigram being a line from an old 1890s ditty: “I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old dad . . .”), author James Jone [https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Jones]s dramatized a deeply upsetting series of incidents that...
PUZO IN THE TRUMP ERA
Mario Puzo [http://www.mariopuzo.com/] died twenty years ago this summer. As a novelist, he remains fixed in the public’s mind for one paramount reason: The Godfather [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/290370/the-godfather-by-mario-puzo-with-a-new-introduction-by-francis-ford-coppola-a-note-from-anthony-puzo-and-an-afterword-by-robert-j-thompson/9780451205766/readers-guide/] . Michael Corleone’s tormented transformation. Sonny’s temper. Fredo’s fecklessness. The horse’s head scene an...
RETRO: Meet the 4th Beatle
Ringo’s gift was to bring to the band a richly textured “feel” in his playing that was musically–and temperamentally–ideal.
Renaissance of the Arts: An Interview with Collagist and Artists Revolution Movement Founder, retro, B
Artists Revolution Movement is revolutionary because instead of it being about how many likes or followers you have, we are in it for the art.
RETRO: When Carol Met Mario (Excerpt)
(Note: This is an excerpt adapted from the author’s book MARIO PUZO ~ AN AMERICAN...
RETRO: Twists of Fate: Blowin', Knockin', Tangled (Fiction)
For our readers’ pleasure, we present a RETRO short story of love, music, and mail....
RETRO: Twists of Fate: Blowin', Knockin', Tangled (Fiction)
For our readers’ pleasure, we present a RETRO short story of love, music, and mail....
RETRO: America's Stunning 1918 Emergence
Contrary to the canard that the USA played no ultimate role in the Great War, the tipping points in 1918 on the Western Front were largely dependent on America’s ability.
RETRO: America's Stunning 1918 Emergence
FOR MY GRANDFATHER: MAURICE ANTHONY MOORE (1891-1959) Even after President Wilson [https://en.wikipedia.org/...
RETRO: Middle School Awakenings ~~ August 1971
It’s before midnight and business is slow at the New Corsica Restaurant, so Kev’...
RETRO: Middle School Awakenings ~~ August 1971
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’...
RETRO: 100 Years Ago... 100 Years From Now
A century after Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos served in World War I, their messages linger in our memories and hearts.
RETRO: In the Mood! (Fiction/Excerpt)
This excerpt from the author’s novel FOR PARIS ~ WITH LOVE & SQUALOR occurs in 1943. The female narrator is in the Women’s Army Corps (WACs).
