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Love Sonnet by John Updike [by Moira Egan]
Love Sonnet In Love's rubber armor I come to you; …
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Al Basile: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________ Killers Before Breakfast New York City, 1974 It was the morning after. On the night before, we'd played at Max's Kansas City, with Stevie Wonder sitting in the house, and…
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Today’s Playlist: The Toreador Song, Amapola, Frenesi, Volare, Granada
with Girogione's "Three Philosophers"
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Maugham on writing, reading, friendship, and the inevitable selfishness of humanity
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” “It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young…
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Ben Jonson: Two Poems — Great Poems of the World, episode 17 — with David Lehman and Mitch Sisskind
My Picture Left in Scotland I now think love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, …
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The Byronic Fallacy [by Charles Ives]
The Byronic Fallacy It is possible that a day in a Kansas wheat fieldwill do more for Mr.Smith than three years in Rome.Many men, some of whom possess genius, have gonedownhill since trying to…
