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This Book Is Overdue!
What is it like to be a librarian in a world of too much information? Talk about wild--constant change, exploding technology, shrinking budgets, and growing numbers of the baffled...could there be a better spot than behind the librarians' desk to watch the digital age unfold?
The Dead Beat
Enthralled by the fascinating lives that were marching out of this world, the author tumbled into the obits page to find out what made it so lively. The result is the true story of a flourishing art, with impassioned writers, addicted readers and a parade of characters we never quite appreciate until they’re gone.
The Dead Beat was a Barnes & Noble Discover finalist and a Borders Original Voice.
One of a Kind: A Tribute to Katharine Hepburn
This obituary of Hepburn was written seven years before her death for a special issue of Life magazine, but the monthly magazine died before she did. Life Books issued it in a coffee-table volume featuring the photographs of John Bryson, with a long version of this essay as its text.
Talk about Pain: A Tribute to Marlon Brando
As a beautiful and compelling young actor or a huge and tormented cross-dresser, Marlon Brando could not make us look away. His life is remembered, and puzzled over, in this tribute, written years before his death.
Strata
As one of the writers invited to participate in the Ekphrasis exhibit at the Lift Trucks Project art space in Croton, NY, I chose to write about the beautiful acrylic called "Strata" painted by Stanford Kay. The exhibit opens with a reception on January 30th from 5 to 8 pm.
The Detachment
It would be like the liver or kidney
only it would filter grief....
The Typing Pool
I've had lovelier seasons.
The one with silver bracelets,
when I ran in the mountains.
The one with the singing baby....
About Books
These bite-size topical essays are appetizers for book lovers. One week, it's about the hypocritical moral superiority of the movie Capote toward the writer’s greatest work; another week, it's about the pleasures of reading on the red-eye.
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