Faith, Fiction, Friends

Can you spin straw into gold, straw into gold, a boast becomes a lie, a lie becomes a request, becomes a promise, becomes a...

It is late afternoon. You enter the movie theater. You walk through the lobby to the auditorium. There, the late afternoon becomes nigh...

In Beat Poets , published by Everyman’s Library, editor Carmela Ciuraru observes that “the Beats…were mostly men, and the work they pro...

They say all publicity is good. For poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), the publicity he received for the publication of Howl and Other Po...

My first introduction to the “Beats” was a caricature. Long before I had heard of Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsburg , Denise Levertov , Wil...

My introduction to the writing of William Faulkner was indirect. It began in college and almost didn’t survive college. Way back wh...

In 1925 New Orleans, it was called Orleans Alley, more a broad walkway from Chartres Street and Jackson Square to Royal Street. On the ...