I recently read in a book review a passage from Los Angeles writer Carolyn See’s new novel. It seems relevant here: “There’s something to be said for free fall, the wild life. It’s ruined us, but it’s helped to save us too. It’s given us our stories; and made us who we...
Because tabloids have been so obsessed with Spears for the better part of the century, “The Woman in Me” is also an archetypal tale about the consequences of fame — an exceedingly nice Southern girl swept up and then chewed out by the sharkish music and media industries. There ...
Too Loud a Solitude For thirty-five years now I’ve been in wastepaper, and it’s my love story. For thirty-five years I’ve been compacting wastepaper and books, smearing myself with letters until I’ve come to look like my encyclopedias--and a good three tons of them I’ve compac...