What are dreams? Many people would answer by saying “Dreams” is a beautiful song by the British American rock ‘n roll group Fleetwood Mac. Others would recall that Rebecca du Maurier begins her wonderful novel, “Rebecca,” with “Last Night I… Continue Reading →
I was in college, in the late 1950s, when I first read The Troubled Air, the book Irwin Shaw wrote in 1951 after the great success of his outstanding World War II novel, The Young Lions. The Troubled Air was… Continue Reading →
Shane, a 1953 movie directed and produced by the great George Stevens, is a film about courage and honor and honesty. About the search of a heroic man for his identity. About integrity About community. And about love. Shane… Continue Reading →
My recently published short story from The MacGuffin Literary Magazine – volume 40, number 1, November 2024: Maggie Whiteman rarely felt anxious before a concert. Now there was a definite sense of foreboding when the driver, picking her… Continue Reading →
The first known physician was the Egyptian Imhotep, who is thought to have been active in the years close to 2625 BCE. He was the chancellor to King Djoser, high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis and… Continue Reading →
Classical music first became important to me when I was a student at Brooklyn College in the late 1950s, although I heard music, especially opera, which my grandfather loved, from childhood. My piano lessons, of course, included compositions by Bach… Continue Reading →
(published in the Spring 2022 issue of the literary magazine El Portal). Thunderbird Marty lost the first love of his life to the son of the district attorney of Brooklyn. At first the family chauffeur, driving a long,… Continue Reading →
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