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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Edward Hirsch’s 100 Poems to Break Your Heart hurts so good, as John Mellencamp once sang. This anthology collects poems from Wordsworth (1815) to Meena Alexander (2018) in order to showcase grief in its…
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How Much? [poem by Jerome Sala]
Jerome Sala (Ed note: Ever since we posted the conversation between poets Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley we've been fielding requests for their poems. Here is How Much? by Jerome Sala, from his book…
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“Private Eye” [by Ron Horning]
Private Eye For some reason I think Ghirardelli Square is Aquatic Parkand walk to the end of Columbus one Sunday off. Pretty bad,so it must have been a lot different when Spicer came here—with…
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Guillermo del Toro: The Devil’s Backbone (2001) [by Lewis Saul]
108 minutesColor 5.1 Surround in Spanish 1:85:1 aspect ratio “What is a ghost?” Answer: almost every character in this masterful film. Del Toro plants a terrific red herring early on…
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“What Hath Gable Got?” Rhett Butler in “It Happened One Night” [by David Lehman]
I could have called it "Hail to the King" or "Odysseus Hitches a Ride," but I went with "What Hath Gable Got?" for my American Scholar piece on the actor who played Rhett Butler…
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Kathleen Rooney: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ Western My favorite flavor of Western is revisionist; my second favorite flavor, spaghetti.…
