The Alien Mysteries of Easter Island

by Willy Staley

The Decrepit Beauty of Dallas

On a recent walk through downtown Dallas, I stopped to admire an old light fixture attached to an abandoned…

Ray Manzarek, 1939–2013

When Will I Make Up All This Lost Sleep?

Do you lay awake some nights with the pillow clamped over your eyes to keep out the…

The Best First Sentence Of A Novel This Year (So Far!)

“The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women’s Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me…

Kevin Shields Is 50

New York City, May 20, 2013

★★★ The morning fog was thick and forbidding, but the pavement was merely damp. The mistrustful…

Oh God It Sure Is “Internet Week”