Back by popular demand (including repeated requests from my daughter, Sophy): a hard-to-find story I wrote years ago, after working four months as a telephone psychic. (Sophy remembers breaking high school curfew and coming home at 3 a.m. but Mommy not caring; I was much too involved with my headset, doing frantic, wee-hours tarot readings [...]
Read MoreHey New York City! This Saturday, January 26 at 7 p.m. at the feminist Bluestockings bookstore on the Lower East Side. I’m presenting my new book Pornography. It was published late last year by Groundwood, a Canadian children’s press. Children’s press? Porn for Kids?? Officially, Pornography is part of a “social issues” series for older [...]
Read MoreThis post has also been published as an article in the January 4, 2008 issue of El Paso’s Newspapertree.com. A version also appears in the Jan. 1-15 issue of CounterPunch. Lots of Americans have heard about the Mexican city Juarez, just across the river from El Paso, Texas, and the 400 or so female murders [...]
Read MoreTwo thousand eight marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Billie Holiday’s great album, Lady in Satin. Add two years and you’re back to 1956, the year she sang “My Yiddishe Mame” at a rehearsal. Until recently, Holiday’s Yiddishkeit session was available only on Verve’s The Complete Billie Holiday: 1945-1959. But a Venezuelan guy [...]
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