Remembering the Supreme Court, Human Rights, a letter, and a novel. And, Armistead Maupin.
I discovered Armistead Maupin’s novel, Tales of the City, and its eight sequels by way of the first four volumes …
Books
Maryland Politics–no Jew need apply
Coming this February How Jews Entered American Politics: The Curious Case of Maryland’s “Jew Bill” Presented by Rafael Medoff of The …
Again this year, I’m sharing Christmas with my good friends at 28 Barbary Lane.
Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and …
Norman and Tom and Curley. (A fun interview with Norman Lear.)
Lear’s on a book tour promoting his new memoir, Even This I Get to Experience. Have a listen to the …
A 57-pound book that looks as wonderful as it is heavy.
And I really, really want it. But at $5,000. for the art edition, it’s not going to happen. (When it’s …
A satirist, he saw machines and gadgets as excessive
From the Jewish Museum of Maryland: Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then …
I met an ad legend. A real-life Mad Woman.
In her opening remarks, 82 year-old Jane Maas said, “When I started my advertising career in 1964, as a copywriter at …
The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
Sam Spade: When a man’s partner’s killed, he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you …
Marlon Brando’s 1947 Warner Bros. Screen Test
In 1947, Warner Bros. brought in Marlon Brando for a screen test—his test was for an early script based on the novel, …
Truman Capote reads part of Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the 92nd Street Y, 1963
In 1963, Capote read from Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the 92nd Street Y, a cultural center on New York’s Upper East …
Every month, a free eBook from University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press (UPC) has an outstanding catalog of publications—writers know them as the home of the Chicago Manual …
Are you the poetic type?
Poetic Types II is the Society of History and Graphics’ second annual experiment in presenting relationships between poetry and typography. …
Alexander Woollcott’s SHOUTS AND MURMURS
Shouts and Murmurs (1922) by Alexander Woollcott read it at ISSUU. Wolcott – Woolcott; Tomato – Tomahto A couple of times …
The Jews of Baltimore, a 1910 reference
Some time ago I put a digital copy of Groeninger’s New Baltimore online as a free download and happily a whole lot …