Mary Bast came back from a whirlwind year-long working holiday in Ireland in 2014, wondering why she was so unhappy over what she thought was going to be the journey of a lifetime with her…
I first read the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time spring through autumn of 1997. A couple of years later, I read the collection of Proust’s essays in On Art &…
Dear Friends, This week’s Share the Wealth is an Open House with my partner Joanie French and her colleagues. Please come for part or all of this gathering. Mark Feldenkrais…The means to know and appreciate…
When I started collaging last year, I stumbled into an activity that is—by all definitions—my happy medium. While I also enjoy pen and ink sketching, I’ve found collaging to be endlessly entertaining, mentally stimulating, and…
Fred Branfman, Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War (first published in 1972) If our country had decency, at the death of Fred Branfman there would have been coverage, interviews, retrospectives,…
Ariel S. Garfinkel, Scofflaw: International Law and America’s Deadly Weapons in Vietnam With the recent passing of Senator John McCain, it’s clear how hard it is for many Americans see what we’ve done in the world….
This coming Sunday, please join Dianne and Bill in writing friendly, handwritten reminders to voters encouraging them to vote November 9th. In an age of digital overload, old-fashioned mail makes a lot of sense. Younger…
“My idea of the ideal text is still the Talmud. I love the idea of parallel texts, with long, discursive footnotes and marginal commentary, texts commenting on texts.” –Noam Chomsky, Mother Jones, 1987
Check out Norman Finkelstein at the Brooklyn Central Library for his lecture series, “Bracing for the Revolution: Landmark Documents and Speeches in American History”: Bracing for the Revolution is a free ten-week class offered as part…
Anne Waldman and Laura Wright, editors, Beats at Naropa: An Anthology Coffee House Press, 2009 I read Beats at Naropa exactly nine years ago, 2009. In my notes on the dialogues, essays, and interviews are…