A Liquor Store in California

A poem for Robert Wrigley on his 70th birthday. Thanks, Kim Barnes, for putting up up to it.

Rasputina - The Female Highwayman

 

 Doing some research and found this awesome folk song. Anybody have a favorite American Civil War era folk song? It's for my re-imagining of Macbeth. #amwriting #screenwriter #shakespeare #adaptation #research #quarantinelife

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live In Europe 1990)

I had a backpack
and a Euro-rail Pass
the year she performed
this. In Spain, I saw
women riding double
on Mopeds
in miniskirts riding over
cobblestones, over the memory
of fascism we Americans
thought we'd defeated.
My, how I loved her.

Patti Smith Interview: Advice to the Young

Things That Happened Before The Earthquake – Book Review Blurb

Things That Happened Before The Earthquake – Book Review Blurb: I first heard of Chiara Barzini’s novel, Things that Happened Before the Earthquake , on the Los Angeles Review of Books podcast. Like a trip through a foreign country the novel has some rough passages and its beautiful passages that makes you stop and linger at the stunning landscape of …

Things That Happened Before The Earthquake – Book Review Blurb

Things That Happened Before The Earthquake – Book Review Blurb: I first heard of Chiara Barzini’s novel, Things that Happened Before the Earthquake , on the Los Angeles Review of Books podcast. Like a trip through a foreign country the novel has some rough passages and its beautiful passages that makes you stop and linger at the stunning landscape of …

The Goldfinch – Book Review Blurb

The Goldfinch – Book Review Blurb: Two things that are considered priceless are human life and master works of art. In The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt weaves a tragic and wondrous spell of a boy who loses his mother in a domestic terrorist bombing at a museum. In the confusion, he listens to a dying old man …