… his German shepherd and blank stare, I know where I am. I also know fog is water vapor spewed when moist air cools to … billion viruses would fill one Ping-Pong ball. I know. And also the vermilion hull of a sailboat named Wayfarer’s Song … I have never felt so strongly before that the world has become nothing but an image of what is inside me. I’ll walk …
Criticism
… recording-industry hub. No homegrown New Orleans record company approached the commercial success of Memphis’s Sun … , got me thinking about the differences between the bodies of written history surrounding New Orleans music and … As you hear “Big Butter and Egg Man from the West,” a 1926 recording, you realize Brothers is right: There’s the …
… same route—through politics. In October 1883, when he was 26 and in his first term of graduate study at Johns Hopkins … in a memorable remark. But because he lacked private income, he explained, law would have unfitted himself for … and graduate lecture courses, where covering bodies of material was required, he performed with competence …
Criticism
… production where the novel is read word for word—completed a successful Los Angeles run in November. Brooks … of its largest rooms “The Fitzgerald Suite” in April. I’ve also been distracted from writing sooner by the Great Gatsby … World War II (when it was distributed to active duty soldiers) and has been with us since. It’s among the most …
… he was born, she would have to be a frazzled fifty when he died at thirty-three. So why do they sculpt and paint her as … for no good end, every night the possibility of some disembodied voice from some important, impersonal place like the … disposal to his lunchbox after school, the rat’s nest of uncombed hair this morning, already late on her way to make …
… a lot to him that he send to them a long, carefully written communication of four or five pages, as I recall. I can … used to put it, “to ride out the war.” When my grandparents died all of those letters written by Dad were found intact, … time they tell something of the person who slips at certain points from one language to another. The ultimate language, …