Around Cohoes
They talked about aluminum siding as a technique for making old houses look new again. From a distance, these sheets,...
Not only New Jersey
“Parts of New Jersey, as you know, are under water, and other parts are under continual surveillance by the authorities.” –...
Scott and Zelda
Image via Wikipedia Reading Matthew Bruccoli’s collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s correspondence, “A Life in Letters”, epistles from a time...
A farewell to arms
I had wanted to go to Abruzzi. I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard...
The Dharma Bums
“I’ve been reading Whitman, know what he says, Cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that’s the attitude...
Required Reading
I know that I’m not unique in having hated nearly every work of fiction I was ever required to read...