“Please Step Back”, Ben Greenman’s new novel about an R&B star named Rock Foxx in the late-1950s, '60s and '70s is a nostalgic tale. Loosely based on the life of Sly Stone, it offers a rare glimpse inside the creative mind of a musical genius that is ...
So the flood waters have abated, and we now find ourselves deep in the valley of Shinar, where a brand new people are living together in a brand new world, washed clean by God Himself. The people of Shinar decide to build a city for fear of being ...
Like a mad scientist emerging from thin air, God appears on the scene and spends five days creating the world as we know it. On the sixth he creates man and then rests on the seventh. Solid. But then we get to the next chapter, where the entire thing ...
My bat mitzvah took place aboard a boat floating through the turgid waters of the Gulf Of Mexico. Like most Jewish kids, I read my haftorah (the weekly Torah portion) in Hebrew, a language I learned to memorise rather than understand. And so it was ...
I just finished "Trawler", Redmond O’Hanlon's chewy and unbelievable account of his trip aboard a commercial deep-sea trawler, and I can't stop talking about it. Aboard the Norlantean, the 51-year-old O'Hanlon–a writer and natural historian–was ...
LOVE AND SPIRITS | October 9th 2008 In search of a proper conclusion to her screenplay, Deborah Stoll heads to Puerto Vallarta and finds a "rehab for the lovelorn" ... I have come here to find love. Not in the traditional sense, but for ...
(Deborah Stoll is a writer based in Los Angeles) Woody writes his grocery list on the inside of a matchbook cover: "Coors, Oreos". He is ready "to meet just one special lady with NO KIDS and NO BANKRUPTICES." Anush, stoic in her leopard-print ...
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