Fear, Freezing (Lake Celeste II)
From New Year’s Eve 2009, some thoughts on ice, fear, solitude and disaster.
Read MoreMan Ray and Jewish Identity
Though in retrospect it seems ridiculously daft, it did not occur to me that the reason the Man Ray exhibit was up at the Jewish Museum this past winter was that Man Ray himself was Jewish.
Read MoreBicoastal
New York is buildings and money, food and drink, glances and remarks. It is streets, not roads. It is filth, not dirt. It is noise, not sounds. It is highways, not freeways, five-hour drives of one hundred miles in stop-and-go traffic instead of five-hour drives of four hundred miles doing 80. It is rats, not […]
Read MoreThe 11:11 to Penn Station, or Exodus
A piece about the exodus from my ancestral homeland, Long Island, published in The Morning News.
Read MoreThe Great Lawn
The crowd at the playground at 85th and Central Park West is about half nannies, half mommies, with the nannies up by a woman or two. There are Thai nannies, Indian nannies, Caribbean nannies, Dominican nannies, post-collegiate American nannies, matronly nannies. Some of the nannies are like mommies, wiping noses, feeding Cheerios one by one, […]
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