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Bully
I’m going to the library today because I realized, from the small class I took, that you must absolutely have a place or a space to go when you want to write. Sometimes, when you’re younger, that “space” can be … Continue reading
New Born, by Ella Hickson
This got a tremendous review from the New York Times, and it was mostly sold out — you could get a seat here and there on different nights, which is how I got a single seat toward the back of … Continue reading
Rage quitting and other perils of the modern world.
One thing I learned from my recent “Intro to Fiction” class, where they teach the absolute basics of attempting to write fiction, and which I took as a last ditch effort to kick-start myself back into a writing mode, is … Continue reading
Greed was good.
Michael Douglas was attractive. I don’t know that was ever a great actor but he had a style which is primarily what famous and good looking actors really need. He is most famous for playing the role at the left. … Continue reading
The minutiae of a writer’s life
This is so typical of the scraps to which writers must cling in order to convince themselves that they are writers, and not hobbyists or imposters. I don’t know why actors have no problem with this. An actor may never … Continue reading
Art Isn’t Easy, by Daniel Okrent
I’d have to go through my playbills and figure out when it was that Stephen Sondheim and his husband sat down next to my friend. He (Sondheim, not my friend), died in late 2021 so I’m thinking it was before … Continue reading
Midnight Cowboy, by James Leo Herlihy
For an unsuccessful novel, it has certainly been published enough times. According to Goodreads, there are 60 editions of this short and intense novel and I suppose it’s almost certainly because of the amazing movie that was made of it, … Continue reading
The Leftovers, by Tom Perrotta
I just read that this was the most perfect series ever, lasting just 3 seasons for very good reasons. I’m not sure I would agree. The book was published in 2011 and the series aired 2014 – 2017. When I … Continue reading
Getting angry at a demented person.
By me. A long time friend — a short black woman who always described herself, jokingly, as a “poor black child from Harlem,” asked me in… roughly… 1999, maybe 2000, to be her executor of her will — actually what … Continue reading
It’s just lies, all the way down.
With apologies to the joke told through the ages in various forms. The joke, which is really just a reaction to an ancient belief that the world rested on the back of seven elephants, goes something like this: An astronomer … Continue reading