Jonathan Richman
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JONATHAN RICHMAN (born 1951) sings to us exactly as we speak to ourselves. And besides, without him poor Affection would sit there standing in the corner, saying to itself, “I wish someone would give me […]
Read This PostAuthor: Mimi Lipson
Mimi Lipson's story collection, The Cloud of Unknowing (Yeti, 2014), was named after her favorite Christian mystical tract. Her chapbook, Food & Beverage, is available here. She lives up and down the eastern seaboard.
James Mason
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JAMES MASON (1909–1984), actor, gave us Brutus, Captain Nemo, Hugo Drax. But above all, he gave us a Humbert Humbert who was elegant yet never effete, and through whose doleful, non-specifically European eyes we somehow […]
Read This PostBea Arthur
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Rest in peace, BEA ARTHUR (1922–2009). She was intelligent, decent, effortlessly funny, and she was old-school show-biz. We adored her as Maude in her signature smock-vests and slacks: broadcasting suburban liberal values with that trumpet-like […]
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