My Favorite Playmate: A Daughter’s Loving Tribute to Neal Cassady
“He looks so old!” was my first thought as the hospital elevator doors parted, revealing my dad. ...
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Category: Memoirs, Fiction & Poetry
Lonesome Thanksgiving
from: Our Year in Downtown Red Yesterday’s sunshine and spectacular seventy degrees are replaced...
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“Francis Thompson (!)” i “My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap. My days have crackled and...
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“I love St. Francis of Assisi as well as anybody in the world.” Desolation Angels Once a sybarite...
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“Count Basie’s swing arrangements are not blaring, but they contain more drive, more power, and...
Read MoreOf the Beautiful Alene Lee
It was Paradise Alley so long ago In the alphabet downtown east Lived a subterranean in clouds of...
Read MoreCarousel Gone
“I hitch-hiked to Asbury Park . . . when I got there, I was exhausted—” i Carousel gone “No plans,...
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