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.
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.
From investment advisors to avid smokers, weed is thriving as we ring in 2020.
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...
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...
Ringo’s gift was to bring to the band a richly textured “feel” in his playing that was musically–and temperamentally–ideal.
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.
(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....
For our readers’ pleasure, we present a RETRO short story of love, music, and mail....
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.
FOR MY GRANDFATHER: MAURICE ANTHONY MOORE (1891-1959) Even after President Wilson [https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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.
