I know the title of Edward L. Greenstein’s Job, just published by Yale University Press, indicates that it’s a new translation of the biblical book composed about 2,600 years ago. But it’s not just “a” new translation. Not by a long shot...
The country duo Big & Rich (Big Kenny and John Rich) can be pretty goofy, but, on their 2014 album Gravity, they included a heartfelt song with the startling title “Thank God for Pain.” The song, written by Rich along with Vicky McGehee and...
The fate of Billy the Kid By Patrick T. Reardon Limerick sour hen, consort of thick-palm, bellied Patrick, cock of blind alley, Catherine grudged open to twitch the moment in soiled New York night. In two hundred seventy five...
A couple months ago, I fell in love with a younger woman, a much younger woman. A girl, really. Well, actually, a baby. She was born a little after four o’clock on a Monday afternoon, and, although I’d known she was on her way, I was astonished...
Back in 2011, my future daughter-in-law Tara Ruccolo took on the challenge to set up a website for her boyfriend’s technologically challenged father. It was a simple thing that debuted on July 23 of that year with a review of Terry...
The novels that Elmore Leonard published in the final decade of his life were often all but plotless. That’s not to say that things didn’t happen, but there was a loosey-goosey feel to the action in the books. These last handful of books give the...
Bill Walker was once described by a top art historian as the most accomplished contemporary artist working in the classical mural tradition, spanning from Giotto in 14th century Italy to Diego Rivera in 20th century Mexico. His work was compared...
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