A Dickensian Experiment in serial publishing, Making It is a new-chapter-every-week novel shared freely with the world. (The entire book may also be downloaded on a pay-whatever-you-wish model). The story of con-men, charlatans, thieves and hustlers on the prowl — and those are the good guys — Making It is a dark satire of our collective Hollywood ambitions. Some will find it awfully funny.
Hope RekindledThis past week has given us more hope for our diseased republic than any other time in 50+ years of paying attention. Observing and participating in a long-overdue peaceful uprising, occupying the streets, feeling the righteous energy of people of all ages, colors, faiths, and wealth (or lack thereof), has…
Clarinetist Glenn Dickson, master of klezmer, has made a solo recording, “Wider Than the Sky,” that’s been on perpetual repeat at our home office. Using over-dubs and electronic digital effects, Dickson fills the aural soundscape with a rich melange of chordal textures supporting the melody. His celebrated virtuosity is subsumed here to long, elegiac musical...
