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Voices of Columbia 1967 (#2) [by Mitch Sisskind]
Ellen Erlanger, Barnard student Barnard is across Broadway fromColumbia which is not very far butFar enough to be different from whatBarnard would be like if there wereOne unified campus for both sexes. For example,…
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I FELT FREE TO TAKE LIBERTIES WITH THE NOVEL [by Peter Fortunato]
I wrote Carnevale hoping my language would primarily evoke two periods of American history: the first is the 1960s, when so much seemed possible; its counterpoint and contrast is the Great Recession of 2008,…
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Voices of Columbia 1967, #1 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Jared Korsauer, Student Every Sunday night a group of usGet together – a leftist lawyer,CU Students, a tough black guyWho got radicalized in the air force,Some chicks, a…
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IS YOUR NOVEL CARNEVALE ABOUT YOU? [by Peter Fortunato]
"Is your novel about you?" That question has become very familiar, and partly it has to do with the use of first person narration. Besides that, anybody who knows I’m a poet as well…
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That Old Black Magic [music Harold Arlen, lyrics Johnny Mercer]
This version of the song — as sung by Louis Prima and Keely Smith — was my introduction to the Arlen/Mercer standard. I liked the collaboration of Arlen and Mercer so much that in…
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A NOVEL IS ANOTHER KIND OF WRITING [by Peter Fortunato]
So I wrote a novel, and it’s just been published: Carnevale. The name means “carnival” and it refers to a gala masquerade party held at the family run, Italian American restaurant of the protagonist’s…
