While kvetching might seem like the opposite of expressing gratitude for life, devout Jews view this differently.
For the first time out of anywhere I’ve lived, I can walk down to a body of water: Virginia Point.
Damon and Pythias, Creeley and Ashbery.
Flying to see a pool because of freedom.
There are many things to see: commercial buildings, a Monticello-inspired post office, churches, lovely homes, and more.
Road rage hasn’t disappeared. What year is it (#576)?
Where did "Dyker" come from?
Whose streets sweep?
In the small sub-genre of memoirs about trail-hiking, A Walk Thru Never Land rises to the top.
A New York school poem about confusion in mid-air.
A collection of words. What year is it (#574)?
It can't be organic.
The bus rolled past the stop!
Putting off creepy surgery as long as possible.
American shakes head.
Too damn fragile for the forsaken world.
Anagrams throughout history and in film.
Toby was flummoxed.
Hartley’s head pounded, a throbbing, stabbing pressure building behind his right eye.
Don’t mongo.
Forget about the dead, reject the past, let go of the future.
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.
The late author talks about short fiction, his disinterest in writing, and his distrust of computers.
The author talks about his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
I’ll skip St. Louis, but never Chicago. What year is it (#489)?