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There are many things to see: commercial buildings, a Monticello-inspired post office, churches, lovely homes, and more.
Road rage hasn’t disappeared. What year is it (#576)?
Where did "Dyker" come from?
Whose streets sweep?
In the small sub-genre of memoirs about trail-hiking, A Walk Thru Never Land rises to the top.
A New York school poem about confusion in mid-air.
A collection of words. What year is it (#574)?
It can't be organic.
Collateral damage and slow demolition around the area that used to house Yankee Stadium.
When the ground returns to plenty.
Memories of a young aesthete.
Travelling through what was once known as Baltic and South Carolina Avenues.
Hartley’s head pounded, a throbbing, stabbing pressure building behind his right eye.
Don’t mongo.
Forget about the dead, reject the past, let go of the future.
Kind of a poncho, really.
Conventional creative nonfiction emphasizes a deliberately “literary” prose, the new books I recommend have a different voice.
We are made from the places we inhabit.
The New York School as anti-canon.
Who Knew is the Hollywood tale of how Barry Diller started in the mailroom and went on to be Head of Production at Paramount and CEO at 20th Century Fox, before turning entrepreneur and investing in the likes of QVC and Tinder.
Quite a gal.
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.
The late author talks about short fiction, his disinterest in writing, and his distrust of computers.
The author talks about his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
I’ll skip St. Louis, but never Chicago. What year is it (#489)?
