… pruned it, and heeled it temporarily into some moist compost in the shelter of the garden wall. If necessary, it … going to be all right there?” I asked him, once he’d steadied himself against the laburnum tree. The muscles in his … about death or getting old, and she won’t have done any false jollying. Jane’s very like her father. When she’d been …
Fiction
… difference between us, though there would be many more to come. What’s with your calling? I asked, as if there could … My old friend Bea called me about Shauna. Not when she died, but later. Frankly, I didn’t want to talk about it. I … theories lately, particularly that Paul McCartney had died before he was even born, and had been replaced, …
… last war. Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek combine more vigor, “drive,” and popular appeal than did … own generalissimo. Moreover, not a few of the world’s generals today have acquired political experience in dealing with … is more pointed on that issue than were Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The Big Four today would surpass the former Big Four …
Essays
… The following post by Alex Koplow is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … independent route allowed him to make a stranger and bloodier movie, and it also let him hire me. I’d been a makeup … Koplow is originally from Virginia and now tutors with the 826LA writing center. His writing has been published by JMWW, …
… and Fitful Dream The experience of war can never be fully communicated. War has a broken, furtive character that … lack of accurate vision was not due to a shortage of signals. There were abundant indicators that the American … had made the colonel a lawyer, West Point had made him a soldier, and the first imprint predominated. He had no trouble …
Memoir
… deal about the man who would be my father-in-law: the comedy of overstating the obvious, the irony of noting the … was Walt. Was because Walt is no longer in this world. He died eleven years ago at the age of eighty-one, having … tell him I’ll take that too. Hey, I want to live.” But Walt also struck me as someone ready to die, at least more ready …