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I’ve worked very hard to construct a storyline in which I’m neither embarrassed nor sad that I clean houses and pet sit. All of my siblings and most of my...
Stages: GUYS & DOLLS at the Kennedy Center
"I've never been in love (with Guys & Dolls) before . . . "
Threnody of a Nightingale Unraptured
Things missed, things lost, loves unloved, and songs unsung.
Readings: MOTHER, DAUGHTER, TRAITOR, SPY, by Susan Elia MacNeal
What would you do to save your world?
Readings: Elizabeth McCracken's THE HERO OF THIS BOOK
A book about a mother who has died. Or, rather ... a book about a child after a mother has died. Or, rather ...
Readings: KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris, by Mark Braude
Behind every great man ... is a woman likely to be erased
Readings: THE KINGDOM OF SAND by Andrew Holleran
The dancer is no longer dancing; so many bodies bruised to pleasure souls which evanesced .... but couldn't he at least get out of the chair?
READINGS: SHY; The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
Rodgers & Hammerstein & Rodgers & Sondheim & Guettel & How I Lived & Loved Musical Theatre
THE MEN, and a few other books of late
Sandra Newman's latest novel ... and a few other recent reads
Since My Last Abortion
15 years and now, nine months of letting go and being gone
That morning after . . .
1When the sun shone through his windshield that fall morning after the election, the first morning the sun had shone that week, the first morning frost had...
What do you do?
“What do you do?” Read. Mostly. “But, what do you do for a living?” For money, you mean? “Yes, for a living.” Well, not to be obtuse, but I don’t consider...
Gay Pan(dem)ic
Lust and fear and lays and lies
Shards, scraps, snippets, scintillas, & shadows
About what has faded, fogged over, and been forgotten
Here I am, going . . . Again
It's Not Polite To Spew When Your Mouth Is Full
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This is Here We Are, Going, a newsletter about A curmudgeon forged in the fires of musical theatre, misspent youth, & a marked inability to keep opinions to...