New York Hustle: Pool Rooms, School Rooms and Street Corners Review: Intense
Stan Maron’s New York Hustle is a moving and intense memoir, a look back that begins in the 1940s. As a working-class Jewish kid growing […]
Stan Maron’s New York Hustle is a moving and intense memoir, a look back that begins in the 1940s. As a working-class Jewish kid growing […]
Her birth name was Lizzie Douglas [1893-1973] but blues aficionados have long known her as Memphis Minnie, a brash, feisty, independent woman who refused to […]
Amanda Michalopoulou’s Why I Killed My Best Friend is an intense and evocative examination of female friendship. The story begins when nine-year-old Maria arrives in […]
For more than 40 years, women throughout the world have been organizing for gender equality. Of course, this has meant different things to different people. […]
Filmmaker Patrick S. Lovell calls January 15, 2008 his “personal Pearl Harbor,†the day the “world turned to darkness.†Until then, life had gone according […]
“They Were Soldiers” is a horrifying book. No, it’s not filled with ghosts, goblins, or vampires and it’s not badly written, boring, or unintelligible. But […]
In Dream Maker, Sammy Hassan, one of Nigeria’s most celebrated spoken-word poets, takes readers into the kingdom established by the Biblical King Solomon. There, through […]
To say that Kelly Carlin, daughter of legendary comic and social critic George Carlin [1937-2008], had an unconventional childhood is like saying Coney Island is […]
Beverly Gologorsky’s kaleidoscopic and complex second novel introduces four diverse women—Ava, Dina, Mila, and Rosalyn—and the working-class, suburban Long Island community in which they live. […]
Yudl and his wife Ryah—Jewish immigrants from Ukraine– and their native-born daughters, Ellen and Baby, are trying to gain a toehold in the US of […]
Bill [played by writer/director Paul Gordon], the hapless hero of The Happy Poet is in trouble. His freshly minted Master’s Degree in creative writing—concentration poetry—has […]
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