Monday, December 27, 2021

A New Year’s Reverie: When Memoirs Meet (Patti Smith, James Wolcott, Pauline Kael)

The streets are cold, it’s hard to get a cab, and your jacket isn’t warm enough--Metropolitan captures that chill discomfort and how the conversations that string between two people walking from one bleak stretch of the block to the corner are part of the invisible wiring of the city, the connective...

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Snapshots of A Child's Christmas in Massapequa

There's a whole literature of vibrant writing from writers looking back to the Christmases of their childhood for memoir or fiction. My favorite is Dylan Thomas's wildly florid prose poem of A Child's Christmas in Wales: Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and...