Category Archive: Big Sensations
Tooting our own horn
You may have missed last week’s review in the New York Times Book Review, but I am so over the moon about it that I’ve reposted it here. It was written by Lily Koppel. I don’t think my feet touched…
Let It Snow
Yes, medications even sledding boasts a royal provenance. In the 16th century some of the first ice slides were built for regal amusement, cialis 40mg with steep wooden ramps covered with ice, which made for a great, slick—fast—sled run. Catherine…
Tinsel Town
You must have realized by now that I love anything that glitters, and, at this time of year, that means tinsel. Appropriately enough, the word itself comes from the old French estincele, ‘to spark,’ and the even older Latin, scintilla…
“Hurrah for Anything”
I have a cartoonish sense of the beatniks, the kind of pop-informed cliche vision—people in black turtlenecks snapping in some 50s era coffeehouse—that poet Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) would have hated. Patchen pioneered the poetry-jazz movement of the late 50s, donning…
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