When Gods walked the Earth and the Great American (And English and Irish) Novels were being written in Paris, Sylvia Beach’s English language book store Shakespeare & Company was heaven. Though it was forced to close after the fall of Paris–and even Ernest Hemingway’s campy but symbolic libration of the site could not bring it [...]
Author Archives: Chris Wallace
Sam Shepard’s “Day Out of Days”
February 4, 2010 – 1:56 pm
Photo by Brigitte Lacombe
Surely it would be blasphemy to suggest that the strongest suit in Sam Shepard’s fecund, polymath deck is his prose. His plays have won him the Pulitzer (“Buried Child”). His acting has garnered an Oscar nomination (The Right Stuff). His direction on stage and screen is highly respected, or better. But it [...]
My Mother by Kirsten Andersen
February 1, 2010 – 4:16 pm
My Mother
She is bent at the waist at a west coast aquarium,
reclined in the daylight of Brooklyn, sober in her role
as a witness to the state, she is dancing at the club
on public television. She sinks her nails into my neck
at the police station, when I am caught stealing lip balm
from the pharmacy, she is [...]
