Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is burning
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The subtitle of this 2004 nonfiction book by Jonathon Mahler tells it all: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City.
Yaddo!
What do James Baldwin, Aaron Copeland, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, Milton Avery, Ned Rorem, Carson McCullers…
Book Groups
I’ve joined the Novel Network, a innovative new venture that connects book groups with authors. On Novel Network, everything…
Essay on Ugandan Literary Activism
“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…