If Not a Room, Perhaps a Shed
For Lala Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness and what…
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Q & A in 1952
A meeting held a long time ago, put together by the Mattachine Society, had the distinction of being among the first times homosexual literature was publicly and sympathetically discussed. Held in 1952 or 1953, the…
Sanders and Warren Unite!
“Sanders and Warren are both fighting against the neoliberal policies of austerity. They are being attacked by Wall Street, the media, and the Democratic Party leadership. Rather than allow them to suffer death by a…
It Can Be So Appealing
Or let me tell you another story I heard about twenty years ago from a black civil rights activist who came up to study at Harvard Law School-it kind of illustrates some of the other…
The Real United States by Hedy Epstein
Not long after I came to the United States [later 1948], I began to work for the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) near New York’s City Hall and later in the agency’s shelter…
Seventeen Quotations from Glenn Gould in Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange
“Dying was a great career move for him.” —Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould “I gather my inner resources from the outdoors.” “Behind every silver lining there’s a…
Twenty-Eight Cullings on Glenn Gould from Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange–The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
I believe in God—Bach’s God. Glenn Gould Stayed out of the public eye, maintained his presence through a conspicuous absence. 9 Gould’s personality has certainly fueled his posthumous appeal. His eccentricity made him fascinating,…
The Spirituality of Photography by Cami Kasmerchak
Cami gave me permission to share this essay. I remember first becoming interested in photography a little over 10 years ago. At first, photography was simply a way to capture moments of family and friends,…
“Speaking Truth to Power Makes No Sense”
Noam Chomsky, The Common Good [1998] Brandon, I first read this collection of interviews between Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian twenty years ago. The interviews were from the second half of the nineties, the Clinton…
Fiddling with the Archetypes
Gary Snyder, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979 I first learned of Gary Snyder in fictionalized form as the hero Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. Therein, as in real life, the…