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Meet the Press: Free-Grace Press—A Conversation with Clifford Jackman
Dante Di Stefano: How did Free-Grace Press come into being? Clifford Jackman: Free-Grace Press was created because we wanted to publish books that are about using the readers imagination. Our books are sculpted art…
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Three Poems by Loren Goodman
from "The Common" (September 2016) Bear Safety If you see a bear: 1. Remain clam and avoid sudden movements.2. Back away slovenly. Avoid eye contact, and speak to the bear in a calm, high-pitched…
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“Black, Brown, and Beige”: Happy birthday, Duke Ellington
1.The horns say yes proceedAnd the sea delivers Nine waves of applauseBlack, brown, and beigeOr red, white, and blueAt Carnegie Hall in World War II 2.A couple of windsSing back and forth like birdsAs…
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Great Movie Music: Fifteen examples that avoid the usual suspects [by David Lehman]
from The American Scholar By David Lehman | April 28, 2020 Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959). (TCM Mediaroom/Wikimedia Commons) In an effort to be mildly unconventional, this list of songs,…
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Squibs 412-415 [by Alan Ziegler]
412: In the early 60s, Jerry White has a folk music show on WJRZ, New Jersey. One stormy night in 1964, Jerry plays Another Side of Bob Dylan in its entirety before its release. I…
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Met Percent: Week Nineteen [by Alec Bernstein]
Couple Politics Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440, gallery 644; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze), Jacques Louis David, French, 1788,…
