Reasons to be cheerful, reasons to be sad. Today would have been the 80th birthday of the astonishingly brilliant, visionary artist and graphic designer Barney Bubbles. Bubbles -- who was.
A very few songwriters have ever as fully inhabited the consciousness of the American mind quite like Merle Haggard. The endless compassion and simmering anger of his greatest songs trace.
Let me tell you a story about three renegades and the pact they made eighteen years ago to improve the world. When David Watkins, Robert Farley and Scott Lemieux banded.
Hello! Got a couple news items for ya, in case you missed them: Over at the New York Times Magazine I wrote about HBO’s highly entertaining “Winning Time,” the ethical.
Jennifer O'Connor (photo by Amy Bezunartea) The brilliant New York-based singer/songwriter Jennifer O'Connor has been authoring tremendous albums of hope and longing for more than twenty years. Her newest release.
Two decades after his toy shop-Bowie breakthrough Streethawk: A Seduction, Dan Bejar remains as protean, ambitious and gloriously distracted as his foundational hero. Over the course of the last twenty.
Happening now at The Southwest Review: an in-depth conversation I had with historian and novelist Robert McCrum about P.G. Wodehouse's World War II apostasy. Plus a premiere of a new.
It's Superb Owl weekend, so I am going to indulge myself a bit with a niche post and piggy back off of Erik's NFL Hall Of Fame musings. It's a.
