In the style of Andrew Wyeth, a scene from “Little Women” – The March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, are gathered in the attic, surrounded by trunks and boxes of treasures. They are looking through old photos and journals, laughing and telling stories, with light streaming in throu...
Although “Mystery Train” might have seemed to some to be about a handful of musicians—Harmonica Frank, Robert Johnson, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley—the book is about much more than that. As Marcus states in the intro, the book is “an attempt to broaden the c...
Greye La Spina has written a few werewolf stories and it is obvious she has a more than passing interest in her subject matter – I particularly enjoyed Portia’s account detailing lycanthropy in terms of the use and abuse of faith and how those sworn to evil are just as capable of perfo...
I found the article we wrote when I was going through years of stories for a collection of my music journalism that I’m putting together. With Jesse’s passing this morning, I want to share it with those who, like I, have appreciated his music for many, many years, and for those wh...
He told me stories of the old country, of his kids. He told me about the construction business he’d built up. The drink flowed freely. I must have opened my mouth and spoke at some point, because eventually, he realized I was too much of an idiot to be anyone’s hit man. The ...
The tower is 29 stories, with its two wings connected by an arch about three quarters of the way up. In 1934 the Magnolia Building was given its most iconic feature: A rotating neon Pegasus, which became a symbol for Dallas even after the tower became crowded out on the skyline, and ...
With Stanley John Mitchell and His Band Of Buddies, Country Joe And His Outlaw Band featuring Seth Okrend and Ziggy Shock. This was the first show of our March residency at Otto’s and the band was tight tonight. We had fun playing songs not often performed like Cup Of Tea and Way Too...
Melville's first book, Shape-Shifter (1990), a collection of short stories, won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book), and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her first novel, The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997), won the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was shortlisted...
Larry Beckett’s “Paul Bunyan” re-tells the legend of the giant lumberjack for the twenty-first century. Drawing on logger folklore, James Stevens’ stories and the Davy Crockett almanacs, Larry Beckett’s poem is a modern epic in ‘long-winded’ blank verse. It is a celebration of the...
Scott Fitzgerald Short Stories To Be Published May 1, 2014 Video: Justin Vernon, Megafaun Do ‘Boomer’s Story’ In Durham, NC May 1, 2014 Audio: New Peter Buck, Corin Tucker ‘Supergroup’ Debut 12 Songs at Portland’s Secret Society May 1, 2014 Video: Bob Dylan Sings ‘Tangled ...