Celebrating Community
In Donald Trump’s America, there’s no wall between reality and screenland. When he lazily entered the 2016 presidential race on a golden Trump Tower escalator, it resembled a dress rehearsal for an SNL parody of The Apprentice. Scenes of Black Lives Matter protestors gassed by riot police and refugee children at the southern border packed into chain-link cages could have […]
Review of The Paperback Guy: Words from the Sidewalk by Kurt Brokaw For over thirty years of Sundays, Kurt Brokaw has hauled a table to Broadway (somewhere between Lincoln Center and specialty food store Zabar’s) to set up shop on the sidewalk. He’s there to sell his collection of pulp fiction magazines and vintage paperbacks from the ‘40s and ‘50s. […]