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“Why No Nobel Prize in Lit This Year: The Real Skinny” [by Morris Phillips]
From our Stockholm correspondent, Morris Phillips, a pretty obvious pseudonym for a chain-smoking friend of ours (pictured above): Dear David, By now you've heard the cover story. A bunch of women were sexually harassed,…
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“Tenderly” [by Angela Sundstrom]
Fuck me now in pale-fireparking garages, againstU-haul trucks and trellisedfences that tread-mark skin,against Victorian lamppoststhat lull with their flicker,on grated sidewalks, sideways,upside down in Ferris wheels inreverse in the backseat of theBuick accelerating exponentiallybetween…
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Cyrille Aimee Carries the Day [by David Lehman]
Cyrille Aimee of the curls proves vocally that “Three Little Words” as done with pianistic elegance by Dick Katz in 1992 remains a great jazz standard in the “I love you” category illustrated by Sinatra in “I…
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Next Line, Please: “For Years You’ve Kept Me Hanging” [by Virginia Valenzuela]
When Lionel Trilling was 23 years old, he wrote to a friend, “There are two ways, I have discovered, of wearing despair. One is over all your clothes, a great vestment hanging well over…
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Views on dance: “Violin Phase” in Lafayette Anticipations’ new space [by Tracy Danison]
the arms are the motor of a body that joins the movement of liberty, becoming: jump, turn, again and again “Violin Phase” (1981) is the first of the four 15-minute segments of Fase,…
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The great Lee Wiley (Oct 9, 1908-Dec, 11, 1975) sings “Manhattan”
Was there ever a better recording of Rodgers & Hart's "Manhattan" than that of Lee Wiley?
