Poet’s Corner – Words Woven I hold words in handfuls Weaving them as colored threads In time and shadow and light Placing them in a form A page, a line, texture and [...] April 5, 2024
Poet’s Corner: What is the Best Time of Day to Write a Poem? April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we are running lots of poems! First up, Esther Cohen who posts a poem every day on her [...] April 4, 2024
Don Winslow’s City in Ruins Wraps Up His Danny Ryan Trilogy The good news is that Don Winslow’s City in Ruins is a terrific finale to his Danny Ryan trilogy which follows the young gangster from [...] April 2, 2024
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano “The paper was called The Voice, and that’s what it was.” Harry Allen Most of us growing up in New York turned to the Voice as a [...] April 2, 2024
Christopher Reich’s Matterhorn – Coming Out of Hiding to Catch a Killer Mac Dekker was once a respected, effective, and feared CIA agent until he was wrongly accused of being a traitor. Faking his own death to [...] April 1, 2024
Joanna Goodman’s The Inheritance – Fighting a Family and the Legal System Arden Moore never thought much about money when she was married. Her husband, Scott, had a well-paying job which gave her the freedom to [...] March 12, 2024
Poet’s Corner – The Other Shoe This is such a good place to be, this now.This time in my life if I close my eyes to the encroaching world at my edges,it’s good now and [...] March 11, 2024
Poet’s Corner – Hope Hope comes quietly, slowly,like cat paws, tentative but determined, on a narrow ledge.The first brave show of green leavesin the cold [...] March 9, 2024