Poco Allegretto and Found Light
Sound translates into color and space experienced as reverberation time … Continue reading Poco Allegretto and Found Light
Category: Comment & Criticism
On architecture, art, culture, film, history, literature, politics, television.
Hope in Winter
Hope woke for me after Saturday’s marches, at such a visible response and catalyst, but the marches aren’t the first catalyst … Continue reading Hope in Winter
Downton Galactica
• Adama = Lord Grantham
• Roslin = Cora
• Tigh = Dowager Countess
On Grey Saturdays
On grey Saturdays, snatches of city weekends return to me that even now are less likely to come from my own years than from my sense of in-between scenes in Annie Hall-era Woody Allen or Kramer Vs. Kramer… Continue reading On Grey Saturdays
Two Serious Ladies
Premise: a female lead, smart, ambitious, hapless and at times narcissistic, is denied the position of her dreams and must contend with relative powerlessness, though still within an exclusive society whose members are keenly aware of its exclusivity and confident that it is the one place to be … Continue reading Two Serious Ladies
Rejection in Many Shapes and Colors
Last night I received the 45th rejection for a story I think is one of the best I’ve written. A number of its rejections have been of the personalized, please-send-us more variety (the Rejection Wiki sorts rejection language into tiers, journal-by-journal) … Continue reading Rejection in Many Shapes and Colors
Town Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts
There’s been money in this town for a long time. My glance fastens, in the old picture, on how the stone crops out of the dirt. (The dark spots in the dirt aren’t flaws in the glass plate negative; they’re horsier than that.) … Continue reading Town Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts
