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TWENTY QUESTIONS - Maria Flook

Q: Which singular experience has affected your writing most? ...more

REPRINT: What's A Story? Leonard Michaels

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Thrusting from the head of Picasso’s goat are bicycle handlebars. They don’t represent anything, but they are goat’s horns, as night is a black bat, metaphorically. ...

REPORT: Vegas Valley Book Festival - Tod Goldberg

There are two great mysteries regarding the city of Las Vegas. The first, and perhaps most perplexing, is figuring out what exactly constitutes the allure of drinking a souvenir football filled with beer.....more

TOUR DIARY: The Diviners, North America, 2005 - Rick Moody

August 30, 2005
Rainy on Fishers Island, and even though it’s not the remnants of Katrina, it has that apocalyptic feeling to it. I bet we got two inches of rain last night. But it’s sort of too late. My garden is dead. My lawn is dead. Meanwhile, the situation here is that I am bound to read from my book at the library on Fishers Island. And I don’t want to do it at all. ...

LIBRETTO: Tonya and Nancy: The Opera - libretto by Elizabeth Searle; score by Abigail AlDoory

Cast:
TONYA NANCY GILOOLY SHANE NANCY’S MOTHER TONYA’S MOTHER CHORUS
*lyrics based on public quotes from the real ‘Tonya’ and ‘Nancy’ ...