Two web publications in one month from what may someday be my memoir book … long in progress. Memoir is a tricky calling at best.All memory is fiction, remade in the moment of the cognitive process, and much fiction the … Read More
Was it only this past summer that Andrei Codrescu was wondering where on earth are the people who object? Why isn’t anyone out on street, carrying a sign, why isn’t anyone saying anything? It’s about three months since then. That’s … Read More
Eva Hesse: 1936–1970 Her life time. The paintings currently on view at Brooklyn Museum – from now until January 6 – were done in just part of one year. They are the last paintings she ever made. She then went … Read More
A Berth in the Haven, from a memoir by Martha King, is online in EOAGH – with fat tags: Paul Blackburn, Thomas Jefferson College, National Poetry Festival 1971, Robert vas Diaz, Dan Gerber, Basil King — and a reproduction of … Read More
There are other spellings…this is the one Andrei Codrescu has embraced. She, She Here, the iconic spinner of tales and excursions, of conversations long into the night. Why is she our ever-fascinating icon? Weak words can save lives? Hers did. … Read More
There are a few of Basil’s baseball paintings on the Art page, main website. “Pastorale” turns up in several of his poems… In the late 1970s, when Basil’s studio was on Hudson Avenue just up from the Con Edison plant … Read More
I had my first office job in San Francisco, c. 1959. Typing insurance policies. On forms with six carbon copies. Before computers, before, before, before. Electric typewriters with variable-space characters were brand new, and a bane on us because W … Read More
We’ve put another odd couple together, although Diane (Simmons) and Mitch (Levenberg) actually know each other. Mitch is coffeeshop counters in the city, subways, garbage cans going crash in the night, misconceptions…. Diane is pickup trucks with bad alternators, roadside … Read More