Archives for June 2010

Josh Brown, a historian who heads the Social History Project / Center for Media Learning at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has been posting his visual blog Life During Wartime once a week since 2003. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

… I am happy to say … with another jaundice-yellow antidote to all things purple… …including purple prose. Which is just what the doctor ordered. As I was reminded by these remarks, per Claude Pélieu on Flypaper, ‘tiz “a voice w/out make-up.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

By way of introduction … Claude Pélieu, «l’iconoclaste, le déflagrateur» Francœur dixit, s’est éclipsé, après bien des morflances, le 24 décembre 2002, à Norwich, dans l’état de N Y. Après avoir plaisanté avec Mary au téléphone en lui détaillant le programme des festivités organisées par l’hosto pour ce jour de Noël. Il a chambré une […]

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Here’s one for the books — an attractively designed boxing anthology with heart, The Fighter Still Remains, just out from Fore Angels Press and DIBELLA Entertainment. I’m told all profits will go to the Berto Dynasty Foundation to benefit Project Medishare for Haitian earthquake relief. The fact that the book has been brought out by […]

Susan Fleet’s first crime thriller, Absolution, is set in pre-Katrina New Orleans. Homicide detective Frank Renzi takes on a serial killer who preys on women. (Click for the Kindle edition.) Now why would a cultivated classical musician like Fleet — she plays a mean baroque trumpet and also happens to be a feminist music historian […]