You entered the light
Unknowing yet unafraid
You will leave light blessed
Best American Poetry- Great Songs of Cinema [by Elizabeth Samet]What do you think of first? “Over the Rainbow,” “As Time Goes By,” “Singin’ in the Rain”? Win, place, and show on the AFI’s “Top Movie Songs of All Time” list. My pick, Judy Garland’s devastating “The Man That Got Away,” from A Star is Born, comes in at #11. It was another Garland song, “Get Happy,” the triumphant final number in Summer Stock, that launched […]
- Harryette Mullen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]photo of Harryette Mullen by Hank Lazer, Venice, CA, 2007 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ We Are Not Responsible We are not responsible for your lost or stolen relatives. We cannot guarantee your safety if you disobey our instructions. We do not endorse the causes or clai […]
- "Why 'Nixonland' Matters" [by Joe Lehman]When I was twenty-five, backpacking through Australia, I carried with me my hardcover copy of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. It absorbed me for all seven months of my journey. I took flight to the land of Oz in late October 2008. Nixonland hit the stores in May of that fateful year of financial crisis. Havi […]
- A Lie [by Lera Auerbach]Finek My dog whimpered quietly in his sleep. His legs were twitching – he had a nightmare. I woke him up gently with a lie: “It’s all right, I will never leave you alone.” Related StoriesSweet Tooth [by Lera Auerbach]
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- Any Wonder Left, by Ethel RohanFiction Photo by Aaron Burden / Unsplash Cleaning out her deceased father’s home in Dublin, a woman reluctantly accepts help from an unsettling stranger. My two sisters and I work throughout the day, clearing out our parents’ home. The easiest room to tackle is the kitchen, there great satisfaction to be had in throwing away the useless and expired: food, co […]
- Reimagining the Classics: A Conversation with Publisher Ilan Stavans, by Jenna TangInterviews Since 2015, award-winning Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans has been immersed in bringing the literary classics to new audiences through Restless Classics. These editions come with introductions by prominent diverse writers from around the world—Jamaica Kincaid for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Lauren Groff for Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day […]
- Shakespeare and Other Ghosts: Anna Frajlich’s Essays on Polish and Russian Literature, by Alice-Catherine CarlsBook Reviews Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was shown as the premiere when the Forest Theatre in Gdańsk opened in 1911 / Photo by magro_kr / Flickr Anna Frajlich, who recently added to her long list of distinctions the Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award, given by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences “for her many contributions to […]
- Creative Distancing and the Creative Process, by Stephanie McKenziePandemic Dispatches Lupines / Photo by Robert Bradbury A writer in Newfoundland gets away—relocating for three weeks to Pinchgut Lake, only fifteen minutes from her home. Treating the change as “every bit as important as a medical experiment,” she seeks to gain the energy and desire to create and feel alive, the jump-start she would usually reclaim through m […]
- Any Wonder Left, by Ethel Rohan
