The Mid-Life Dreams of Marjorie Morningstar
In the late Herman Wouk’s (who passed recently at age 103) coming of age novel “Marjorie Morningstar”, a young actress endures heartbreak while struggling to build a theatrical [...]
In the late Herman Wouk’s (who passed recently at age 103) coming of age novel “Marjorie Morningstar”, a young actress endures heartbreak while struggling to build a theatrical [...]
After three weeks in the woods as a “Writer in Residence” at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (working on my novel “The Wife in Winter: Oaths of Fealty”, spending time with exceptionally talented artists [...]
Thirty-two years ago, a summer share advertisement in The Village Voice changed my life. According to the Voice classifieds, half-shares were still available in a large beach house on Fire [...]
In defiance of statistical norms, I’m back in C.V.S. shopping for tampons and overnight pads. A song of my youth is piped through the florescent illuminated suburban gloom. It’s [...]
Today, I’m in physical therapy because I ache like a woman. The physical therapy team has given me more challenging exercises as I’m fighting my way back towards the tennis courts [...]
There’s a beautiful Dar Williams song, “February”, which captures heartbreak in winter. “…The everyday turned solitary, so we came to February…And February was [...]
Without Hillary Clinton in the White House, moderates and neoliberals are wide awake and deeply uncomfortable with the status quo for the first time. Terrified and disgusted folks are advised [...]
There’s that awful moment when you discover the brilliant scholar, whose review of “Local Deities” in “The Nation” (“Staying on Alone”, 2/12/90) changed [...]
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