by lannyadmin | Sep 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Many thanks to Peter Blauner for resuscitating a 1939 gem of a novel, Christ in Concrete, byPietro Di Donato, a tale told through the eyes of Italian immigrant bricklayers, but one also ofcapitalistic excess, the immigrant experience, and the Italian-American lens on...
by lannyadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
To we who are elderly, let’s neither avoid nor swim in the times of our youth long gone. We are not decrepit versions of then, rather we wear different costumes of wrinkled skin, generous girths, and the unblinking stare of knowing nothing is new. We are comprised of...
by lannyadmin | Jan 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
I suspect much of the reason that I, like many writers, need editing is because the act of writing and telling a story is such an immersive, mental experience. As we write, we exquisitely picture our characters, their demeanors, their states of mind and their tones as...
by lannyadmin | Dec 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
After you’ve closed the covers on a book and still feel it two days later, you’ve been privy to something special. If you’re still thinking about it by the third day, you’ve been exposed to compelling questions. And when you talk about it ceaselessly with friends,...
by lannyadmin | Nov 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is my first holiday alone, following a breakup with the woman for whom I moved east from Chicago. I have no family nearby. All our friends are hers. Anxiety becomes acute as night descends, it’s the time we would have been celebrating with family and friends and I...
