Dreamers Rise

When I was growing up there was a commercial artist in our neighborhood named Gordon Johnson, whose specialty was paintings for advertising ...

We're lying in bed and there's a rap on the window glass. I get up and open the window. A middle-aged couple are standing on the sid...

One summer evening about twenty years ago I left work at rush hour and joined a line of backed-up traffic using the on-ramp to merge onto th...

The narrator of this novel by the elusive writer who called himself B. Traven is one Gerard Gales, an American seaman who oversleeps while ...

I've been assigned to escort a famous poet to a public reading in Princeton, New Jersey. We are to meet in Grand Central Station before ...

The post below was posted in a different venue in 2006; I'm dusting it off in honor of Michael Leddy's post at Orange Crate Art. I...

Archaeologist Alan Hardy describes a find that emerged during the excavation of a long barrow in the Berkshire Downs: A book was found w...

A prim middle-aged woman steps up to the counter and asks if we have any books by the novelist Catherine Cookson. I say I don't think so...

This volume of stories, texts, and illustrations was published by Profile Books in 2003. For a while it seemed to have become scarce, but it...

I'm walking in the woods at night in the company of Willie McTell. I see three deer standing a few yards away; somehow, in spite of his ...

I stepped into a little café that was simply a small room with a counter in the rear and a table on either side of the door. The woman behin...

A posh tour bus pulls up outside our house and discharges a group of North Koreans and American supporters, who barge in through our front d...

The larger the scale, the more predictable the world is. The planets and stars move on determined courses, the earth revolves, day becomes ...

It's very difficult, at least for me, to make out the long inscription on this Real Photo postcard, but the language is apparently Germ...

The Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca recounts an incident that was related to him by Native Americans he encountered during his l...

In the office on the 73rd floor, high above the city, the president of the company passes me a handful of letters to mail and a note with t...

Elena Poniatowska's Leonora is a biographical novel that closely follows the eventful life of her longtime friend, the artist and write...

I was walking on a quiet back street in the next town north. Some twenty feet up in the branches of a great oak that rose up next to the si...

Seaside stencil, June 2017. (I gather there's a Hunger Games reference involved, via Lorde .)

Walking a woodland trail the other day through an area with a number of dramatic rock outcroppings, I zeroed in on this particular boulder i...