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A few friends of mine from Neshaminy High School in suburban Philadelphia were taught English our junior year (1964-65) by J.D. Sprague. Mr. Sprague’s curriculum of American novels – including The Catcher In The Rye, 1984, Brave New World, A Separate Peace, and many others – blew our minds before blowing minds was a thing. […]
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1. For What It’s Worth. Buffalo Springfield drew a bead on police anti-protest tactics during the Vietnam war in this tense 1967 song featuring Stephen Stills, who wrote it, on vocal and guitar, Neil Young, Jim Messina, Jim Fielder, and Richie Furay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY 2. I Heard It Through The Grapevine. Although it’s been eclipsed in […]
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Death At The Howard (DATH) refers to 34 songs that were – or should have been – popular on the rock or rhythm & blues charts before or in 1968. One of my greatest pleasures in writing the book was getting to give a little “air time” to each of them. It’s my pleasure here […]
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When I completed my first novel in 1995, there was only one choice for an author who hoped to find readers: commercial publication. At the time, there were dozens of publishing houses – and no Internet – so the only real way to get a publisher to read your work was to get a literary […]
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For all of you who don’t forshtay (understand) Yiddish – or thought you did before you read what I did to it – this blog is a reader’s guide to its use in the book. Yiddish and Hebrew are not the same language, but if you don’t know either of them, they might as well […]
