One thing about historical fiction: if you know anything about the history, there are no spoilers. When I picked up The 13th Apostle, I knew how it would end. Michael Collins would die by an assassin’s bullet. I knew it was because of a dispute that ha…
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The following is a Brooklyn Bugle reader’s account of their experience at the Montague Street Haagen Dazs in Brooklyn Heights.
July 29, 2014Lynn Rosenberg’s Cast and Loose Tumblr has become sort of a legend. For about the last year or so,…
July 29, 2014I can imagine little more challenging than writing about the experience of being black in America if you are…
July 29, 2014My friend Moira Redmond has a blog called Clothes in Books. When she started it, I reminded her that Ayn Rand heroines favored high waisted gowns in the ‘Empire’ style, because she had, during her term as Fray Editor, remarked that any post mentioning …
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Change is constant, change is unavoidable. All of our favorite buildings will one day be destroyed, all our favorite…
July 27, 2014So your Tea Party Facebook friends are doing a lap and high fiving each other right now over this…
July 25, 2014The Random Noise List: WORST BAIT AND SWITCH ON CLASSIC ROCK RADIO: Okay, “Riders on the Storm” fades out,…
July 25, 2014Some years ago, Michael Kinsley explored the notion of a political gaffe, an event, he said, when “a politician…
July 25, 2014“Wooly Bully” came on the radio. I’ve been listening to it for a lifetime, but I never really heard…
July 24, 2014