Simon Perchik is the author of several books of poetry, including Mr. Lucky (Shearsman Books, 1984), Who Can Touch These Knots, New & Selected Poems (Scarecrow Press, 1985), The Emptiness Between My Hands and These Hands Filled with Numbness (Dust Dog Press, 1991, 1996). His work has appeared in The Partisan Review, Poetry, American Poetry […]
Issue 66
Jo-Anne M. Watts: Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar
Frank and I were running a little short on money so we had to cancel our trip to Italy. Instead, we decided to spend a few days in NYC, not exactly an exotic place to go considering Frank is from Brooklyn, and I’m a transplanted New Yorker who worked for years in Manhattan until I […]
Vicki Weissman: Harry Potter — The Renaissance of Reading?
You can’t, as they say, argue with success, and there’s no doubt that J. K. Rowling’s success has been phenomenal. She is now a very rich woman and that’s before she has finished the series. Not only has her boy hero made her rich, he has also given her the chance to tell the BBC […]
MJ Robinson: The Blair Witch Project: An Allegory
The Blair Witch Project marks a watershed moment in cyber-hype. In the same way that Jaws revolutionized distribution by blasting into saturation bookings in 1975, this “little” film redefined “synergy” by synthesizing film, video and the Internet. Movie websites can no longer contain merely interviews with the cast and crew and hotlinks to Blockbuster. In […]
James Polchin: The Actor and the Academic
Lecturing in his blindness, the aged Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges contemplated the nature of immortality quoting Thomas Aquinas: “Intellectus naturaliter desiderat esse semper,” the mind naturally desires to exist forever. To this Borges asked, “But in what ways does it desire it?” Obscurity is a tragedy in our times for it denies the possibility […]
Steve Fellner: Inspiration
No movie biography has disturbed me more than Ed Harris’ Pollock. My dislike for the movie centers around one key scene: the moment Jackson Pollock finds his Inspiration. It’s the scene that attempts to show Pollock’s discovery of his Action paintings. The Big Moment of Discovery. This is the Moment: Pollock is doing one of […]