Dolly Parton, RIP
Dolly Parton passed away this week at the age of 80. Her death leaves a big hole in hearts around the world.
Author: DJB
Molded by the past, yet inevitably changed by the future
Molly Crabapple’s story of the Jewish Bund is an ambitious yet flawed work of discovery and history.
Gimmie that old Brooklyn Bluegrass
Damn Tall Buildings encourages you to abandon your assumptions about who can play traditional music.
Beware the English murder village
Think twice before booking that dream vacation to the English countryside.
A belated farewell to “A Dark and Stormy Night”
All celebrations of bad opening sentences must, alas, come to an end.
So you want to find a treasure?
Elizabeth Buchanan looks at why despots over the centuries have tried—and failed—to own Greenland.
The wages of erasure is reenactment
My conversation with Wright Thompson, author of the award-winning book “The Barn.”
Summer reading . . . check!
The good folks at Wonderland Books provided some structure for my summer reads.
Attention is the beginning of devotion
An ordinary yet extraordinary day with Mary Oliver and one of DC’s premier independent bookstores.
Glen Hansard, RIP
Glen Hansard “gathered people together,” showing “that kindness is its own kind of song.”
MORE TO COME... 