Rating: ❤❤❤❤ A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission. – Rush, “Mission” Art, in the end, may be little more than this: convincing people to set aside their natural reluctance long enough to register your vision. – Richard Russo, “The Gravestone and the Commode” “Creativity Isn’t Candyland” I’ve loved Questlove’s name ever …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m Timothy What’s His Name. – “The Seven Tongues of God” Guinea Pigs in Outer Space In my early teens I became fascinated by musician/vocalist Syd Barrett, in and beyond Pink Floyd. His shamelessly wacky lyrics and his erratic nature impressed me, helping me to develop my lifelong iconoclasm and taste for the …
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ When I received Brad Parks’ new crime novel, Closer Than You Know, for review, I felt the same as I felt when Anne Perry’s An Echo of Murder showed up at my door several months ago. As I wrote in my review for that book, “nowadays it takes almost everything in me to read fiction….Perhaps …
According to the late dictator Fidel Castro, the Revolución Cubana’s legacy was almost blameless, constructive, justifiably defiant and positively epochal rather than dystopian and fated for failure. However, besides ever-intrusive government, the quest for mass social justice requires drastic actions, so it’s easy to find Fidel’s denials of civil-rights abuses, executions and intolerance incredible. On …
