The God Thing
As the year winds down, I’m so grateful to the literary magazines that have published some of my stories this year. This latest one, “The [...]
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Down These Mean Streets
At the beginning of the year I started thinking about a fictional private eye I once admired named Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey was the invention of [...]
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The Photograph
Stan took this picture at the Ninth Avenue Food Festival not long after we moved to New York in 1989. Ever since, it has never […]
Thinking About Egg Salad While Listening to Auden
I got the idea to write this essay when I was looking through old journals and realized that I had hundreds of lists of food […]
Overlooked No More
What a treat it was to write about the Sally Michel exhibition at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey! Michel was a gifted artist […]
Stir-fry Cancer
Not long ago I marked the 20th anniversary of a major bout with cancer. It was an experience I never thought I’d forget. But inevitably, […]
The Letter
What would you do if you came across a letter your mother wrote to a friend that trashes your entire life? It happened to […]
Diary of a Docent
Leading tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was one of the great experiences of my life. Equally great, though, were the friendships I made […]
Sprezzatura!
I’m so excited to share a new story I wrote called Sprezzatura. It takes place over a single day in November a few years back […]