If there's one song for me that evokes a New England summer in all its glory--its heartbreak, humidity, brevity, longing and hope, its clamcakes, Levi's, docks and lakes and rivers, its yellow cellophaned packages of Swedish Fish, it's Listen To What the Man Said, by Paul … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2009
Less watercolor, more oil painting
I purportedly went to my favorite independent bookstore, A Great Good Place for Books to hear Chandler Burr read from his fabulous new novel You or Someone Like You the other night, but really I went because I wanted him to smell me. You see besides being a novelist, a … [Read more...]