Because Basil’s right-side weakness is getting worse, I persuaded him to see a neurologist. His first neurology visit since teenage episodes of seizures that stopped well before he went to Black Mountain in the 50s. And well before there even … Read More
First, take your time. A large painting hangs dead center in the first room of this exhibit. Dimensions aren’t given on the wall sign, but the press kit lists 67” x 96”. This painting is central and all the … Read More
I’m one of 29 contributors to Wreckage of Reason II subtitled “Back to the Drawing Board.” (I appear in the original 2008 volume as well.) The editors say these stories “use different style and genres … to illustrate moments … Read More
Pushing spring, despite all! There are now twenty-one views of pigeons in Delacroix’s Garden in Basil King’s studio. Winter-spring 2013-2014. Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/ He’s now moving on to a new series “Visiting Delacroix’s Garden” with…images to come. Enjoy!
Literary mischief, bravado inventions from two dazzling writers: Prose Pros presents Lynne Tillman and Lynn Crawford at SideWalk Café, March 6, at 6:30. Lynne Tillman’s fourth collection of stories Someday This Will Be Funny, was published in May 2011. And … Read More
Look out whippersnappers. An old man is coming, his brushes are loaded, and he’s got birds on the brain! There are many birds on view in his studio in Brooklyn, by invitation, this year. Use this link for … Read More
Prose Pros is me and Elinor Nauen. We’ve been presenting monthly prose readings for seven years! Our two readers for February are Jenny Allen (New Yorker columnist) and Nancy Giles (CBS-TV columnist). A first for us: both writers have outstanding … Read More
Above, Amiri and Baz at the Poetry Project, February 17, 2013. Below, LeRoi and Baz and Gil Sorrentino, May, 1963, excerpt from Learning to Draw, A History, Basil King, Skylight Press, 2011: It was crowded in McSorley’s. All the bartenders … Read More