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.
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).
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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.
MJ Moore's piece on novelist James Jones and Lowney Handy's countercultural writers' group, The Colony.
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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”.
It was 1972. My cool uncle and his girlfriend allowed me to tag along when...
When we asked Sonia Pilcer about cannabis and writing, she had only to direct us...
“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.
