Maus Tales by Terry Barr When I was nine, I took religious confirmation classes in the same Methodist church my mother’s family had belonged to for decades. My ten classmates and I took our instruction every Wednesday afternoon in the junior room, located in the far reaches of the church basement. Dr. Winefortner, our minister, prodded us gently about matters essential to our souls, or at the very least our moral health, and at the culmination of our six-week sessions, […]
Listen to What the Man Said
Listen to What the Man Said by Terry Barr Paul McCartney and Wings had the number one song in the middle of July 1975. A song from the album, Venus and Mars are Alright Tonight. I remember this song well even though I didn’t especially like it. I wouldn’t have thought it was the number one song of that period, either: a semi-catchy ditty about a “soldier boy [who] kisses girl [and] leaves behind a tragic world.” The real tragedy […]