November 20, 2024November 19, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

On the Brilliance of “My Brilliant Friend”

November 13, 2024November 12, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Elon Musk and the Ancient Mariner

November 6, 2024November 5, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Mixing It Up with Phil Lesh and Ezra Pound on The Day After

October 30, 2024November 1, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

On Ezra Pound’s Birthday: Life and Contacts

October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Pity, Terror, and Tragedy Within and Without James Joyce’s “Portrait”

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Happening Now — Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill and Ruth Wilson’s Jane Eyre

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Of Songs and Singers, Boxers and Debaters, On John Lennon’s Birthday

October 2, 2024October 1, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

On Wallace Stevens’s Birthday: Blackbirds, Mountains, Cities, and Cathedrals

September 25, 2024September 24, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Living In William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” — A Birthday Celebration

September 18, 2024September 17, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Fields of Dreams: W.E.B. Du Bois, James Earl Jones, and the Library Book Sale

September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

A Tale of Two Events — D.H. Lawrence and a Perfect Rainbow

September 4, 2024September 3, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

September Begins With Dragons, Delon, Baseball, and a Smile

August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Thoughts About the National Pastime on a Special Day

August 21, 2024August 23, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Reading Stan Getz With J.D. Salinger and Gary Giddins

August 14, 2024August 13, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Weird and Wayward: Taylor Swift, Wim Wenders, and the Macbeth Curse

August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Weirdness Unbound with J.D. Vance, Taylor Swift, and “Babylon Berlin”

July 31, 2024July 30, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Reading J.D. Vance On the Rebound

July 24, 2024July 24, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Hemingway at 125 — Don’t Give Up and Don’t Forget to Dance

July 17, 2024July 17, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Playing the Name Game with Freud, Biden, and Trump

July 10, 2024July 9, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Fireflies and Fireworks: Thoreau, Whitman, and D.H. Lawrence

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

On Franz Kafka’s Birthday: “The Tremendous World I Have In My Head”

June 26, 2024July 12, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Celebrating Bloomsday with James Joyce and John Lennon

June 19, 2024June 18, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Celebrating an Uncut Gem: Frank Borzage’s “Man’s Castle”

June 12, 2024June 12, 2024 Stuart Mitchner

Celebrating John Wetton’s “Extraordinary Life”