Ever since the age of four

Portland No better way to return to life than listening to Califone do a soundcheck at a club in Portland, Oregon. I'm reading here to...

Went to the Ulster County Fair. Ate a corn dog, walked through the 4H poultry house. New beloved writer: Sonia Rivera-Valdés . Beautiful sto...

Tammy Faye as Ghandi I Geniunely Love You The mess and scandal of Jim and Tammy Faye had always left me wondering about her. How much can s...

Lantern slide of Waterfalls in Woodstock, NY, ca. 1904 Coffee and Paper The Literary Gazette (its own glossy-covered tabloid section in the...

Jessa Crispin of Bookslut Pancakes and Sausage A few more words about Chicago: The Book Cellar , which handled sales at the Bookslut reading...

Was Chicago This week, Thursday is the new Monday like global warming is the new pollution. Which is like realizing that Tyranosaurus Rex ha...

Mark Rothko, 1969 Is absolutely Chicago The long walk from O'Hare to the Blue Line ended in a strange, subterranean, humid hall, kind of...

In Retrograde The headlines have been dark. The supreme court may have just effectively reinstated segregation. A car was found filled with ...

Thunderstorm, 9:30 pm, and the aftermath, the next day. Mary Greene of the Hudson River Reporter said this in an email: Just wanted you t...

Everything That Rises Must Converge WASHINGTON (AP) -- Overwhelmed by the number of soldiers returning from war with mental problems, the Ar...

Another note to Harley Harley is the pseudonym for a friend of mine who's a literary scholar of new fiction, last name Davidson he ofte...

Context is everything. The word of the night was  willowy. As in: Well, I'm not his type. He goes for those willowy, ethereal types. Wom...