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What, no “Birdman?” What, no “Into the Wild?” What, no… [By Steven Rea]
Lists, lists, lists…. Any editor will tell you that lists are clickbait — the stuff that drives web traffic. The 20 best bookstores in the world. The 30 essential jazz albums. The top ten…
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“Drinking Buddies” and Tony Hoagland [By Steven Rea]
It wasn't until I hunkered down in a screening room one weekday morning in the summer of 2013 that I finally found out about Tony Hoagland. I was there in my then-capacity as movie…
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Reid Hall Gets a Re-do [by David Lehman]
Years ago, as a graduate student shuttling between England and France, I spent a lot of time at Reid Hall in Paris, Columbia's footprint in the city of lights. It was and is at…
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Ithaca Alert: Lehman to give “Lecture with Musical Illustrations” at IC Monday 9/16
Ithaca alert: On Monday evening, September 16, 2019,at 7:30 PM I will give a talk — punctuated by wonderful music — about the great American songbook. at Ithaca College, Textor 101. The talk is…
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An Interview with Sydney Lea (by Nin Andrews)
NA: On Monday, I posted an interview on this blog in which I talked about the anthology, Here, Poems for the Planet, edited by Elizabeth J. Coleman. I want to follow it with this interview…
