A Memoir of Creativity, Piri Halasz’s new book, unites art theory, politics, journalism & memoir into a fluid whole. Its point of departure is a theory about abstract painting that defies the dictionary. Halasz argues that instead of being non-representational, abstract painting can be seen as a new, “multireferential” form […]
“I think Spic Chic is strong stuff, right in the Nuyorican tradition. Poems and then stories back into poems that are often emotionally moving. A self exploration in a non-chronological history consistent in language and point of view, it is clearly a highly personalized work that is successful in the Nuyorican free-style genre and successful in the broader sense as well.” David Henderson, author, ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child
Review of Love-Lies-Bleeding
LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING
A play by Don De Lillo
Reviewed by Bonny Finberg
As Aristotle stated that a man doesn’t know his life until he dies, Don De Lillo asks: what is a life and whose are we living?
Love-Lies-Bleeding, his third and latest play, also the name of an ornate plant with hanging […]
Review of America’s Child
AMERICA’S CHILD by Susan Sherman
reviewed by Bonny Finberg
The phenomenon of the Sixties did not arrive via Zeus’s head, pre-fab with a face and a name. It was the frisson created between dissidents and revolutionary thinkers, from both the political and cultural spheres, and the powers that be. […]
Review of ON BEAUTY
By Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Bonny Finberg
I’ve been thinking about reincarnation and Zadie Smith— wondering if the tremendous insight and breadth of her vision are the result of many lives lived. But the more I think about it, the more convinced I become by the simpler idea that she experiences […]
Review of Lucky Girls
Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger
Reviewed by Bonny Finberg
Nell Freudenberger’s first story ever to be published, the title story of this collection, was chosen as one of four by “debut writers” for the New Yorker 2001 Summer Fiction Issue. Her first book, a collection of skillfully wrought short […]
Review of Inheritance of Loss
“Tötest du einen, bist du ein Mörder. Tötest du viele, bist du ein Held. Tötest du ALLE, bist du eine Legende.”
“If you kill one, you are a murderer. If you kill many, you are a hero. If you kill ALL, you are a legend.
—Posted by the moderator, “Frontsoldat,” of “Deutschland” […]
Towards a Post War Language
Towards a post war language.
The time has come The people said
To talk of other things. Not of kings and crowns
Of wealth and boundries But of life.
It is time to say this loudly And In every tongue,
Damn the Damners who damn things up
Who hurt the flow so they can Grow big bellies on the bloody bodies Of Enemies, perhaps red, perhaps […]
A Thousand Ways
To put very simply
There must be a thousand ways
Out here in the ozone
Someone asked me once a long time ago
How one becomes a poet
So I inquired as to had he dreamed that night
To wake up and write it all down
Desperately
Then, soon, I told him
It wouldn’t be long
He’s be dreaming all the time
awake or asleep
Of his […]
CRUCIFICTION
by
Bonny Finberg
While the bombs fell between the 20th and 21st of April 1944, people prayed at the feet of the Crucifixion at Sacre Coeur. Montmartre was spared. I can’t help but feel it was their collective prayer that saved them rather than the stilled heart of a dead man, as […]
Idea Kitchen
SUNDAY, July 5, 3 - 5:30 pm
Paul Pinto:
My Very Special Recital
Gathering of the Tribes
285 E 3 St., 2nd Fl., (Bet C & D)
(212) 674–3778 info@tribes.org
Coordinated by patrick brennan & Steve Cannon
http://www.sonispheric.net/IdeaKitchen.html
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1st Sunday of each month 3 — 5:30 pm
a new guest composer each month
the project
This is an unfunded musician initiative for musicians […]
Free 2 HOUR mamboXman DVD for first 100 pre-orders of Spic Chic
“(Luis) Chaluisan’s unique and pioneering show combines the music and theater worlds into one energetic performance; Influenced by the honest emotions of the blues and the pulse and rhythm of street salsa … no one will go home disappointed.”
Noah Fowle - Bronx Times
The Manhood Test
He remained on the couch for another hour or so, his half-erect penis cupped in his left hand. He heard the muezzin’s incantations, “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar” (God is Great! God is Great!), calling the faithful to the first of their five daily worships to the Creator. He gently rubbed his penis and listened:
Free 2 HOUR mamboXman DVD for first 100 pre-orders of Spic Chic
“(Luis) Chaluisan’s unique and pioneering show combines the music and theater worlds into one energetic performance; Influenced by the honest emotions of the blues and the pulse and rhythm of street salsa … no one will go home disappointed.”
Noah Fowle - Bronx Times
Steve Cannon for President!
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