CAROLINE LEAVITT: Cruel Beautiful World
The cover is even more entrancing when you hold the book in your hands as I just did for the last ten minutes. Set against […]
Thoughts
Fire and Ice, A Room of One’s Own
I go to Caffe Bene (an Asian Starbuck’s) to read and write at a corner table while I have my coffee. Suddenly, a terrible alarm […]
HEMMING FLAMES by Patricia Colleen Murphy, winner of the May Swenson poetry prize, 2016
A review by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: On my foyer wall is a signed litho of May Swenson’s Come In Go Out. I have all her […]
Small Mouth Sounds at The Pershing Square Signature Center
This critically-acclaimed Ars Nova production of Bess Wohl‘s Small Mouth Sounds returns this summer at The Pershing Square Signature Center. Thanks to the inventiveness of Stowe […]
Best Excuse ever for not handing in homework
One of my students went to her brother’s wedding in Jakarta where a Macaque swiped her eyeglasses right off her faee. She snapped a photo […]