Lou Rawls was born on this day in 1933.

Our pals at W.W. Norton asked us and some other great folks to take part in their Twitter Fiction Festival tweeting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Robert Clark Young reviews Last Call in the City of Bridges by Salvatore Pane.

Songs inspired by Colum McCann.

Goodbye to Bazooka Joe comics.

The style of Jacques Brel. 

“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” is coming.

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