I have never seen one of Wendy Wasserstein's plays, but it didn't matter. This was one of the rare biographies where I felt that the author really got beneath the public persona of her subject and provided me with some interesting insights. Ms. Salamon accomplished this without the benefit of i...
To my surprise and joy, The Christmas Tree by Julie Salamon turned out to be a wonderful Christmas story for tiny tots and older folks alike.Sight unseen, I was expecting a Children’s Picture-Book – equal weightings story and illustrations. While the illustrations in The Christmas Tree are delig...
Winter Daily Log—J.S. Transcendence . . . Davey G. (Gregorius) told me he’d just seen a forty-one-year-old pregnant Hispanic woman who came in with vaginal bleeding. First baby. He grinned, reached into the pocket of his white coat, and pulled out a photo of the ultrasound. “Baby okay,” he said, ...
HERE WITH SISTERS SANDY AND GEORGETTE.SixTHE FUNNIEST GIRL IN NEW YORK1971-73 “Wendy, you make me want to blechhh,” Lola said to her in exasperation one day. “You know what blechhh is?”Wendy knew exactly what “blechhh” was, especially after Lola put her hand to her mouth and pretended to retch...