Reading Around

There will probably never be a last word on masterful composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021). As I write, I’m sure students are [...]

Journalists, authors, editors, anyone who has dealt with the intricacies and politics that go on within publications and publishing houses [...]

“Art is the only way we know past civilizations exist. Without art, there is no meaning, no identity.” Heather O’NeillSofia Bottom [...]

Most people aware of Dorothy Parker associate her with wisecracking light verse: Oh life is a glorious cycle of song/A medley of [...]

I got a message recently in my email that stopped me cold: my storage was running out. How could that be, I wondered?  But things [...]

Like many beads of moisture Scattered as lace across the grass Yellows mixed with greens and umbers Blanket the yard reaching wide and [...]

Robbie Manning hears the knock on the door he’s been dreading. Twenty years ago, he was in a van that hit a young woman, leaving her [...]

It’s been less than a year since Lew, Davina Klein-Roberts’ husband, died after a long battle with cancer. Lew was Davina’s love and [...]