Manages to stretch a rather thin period of time into a full length memoir/travelogue, Rachel Shukert's voice is clear, smart, funny and self-deprecating, carrying a short time in two European countries shortly following her graduation from NYU. It's all in good fun, but despite the lack of substa...
The secretary gestured toward a low stool against the wall, wedged between two miniature palm trees. “He’ll be with you in a moment.” Feeling meek and small, Margo did as she was told. It was exactly as though she were sitting outside the headmistress’s office at Orange Grove. Anxiously, she wipe...
It wasn’t that he wouldn’t miss her while she was playing the role of a lifetime as Olympus’s virgin bride. But Leo Karp had just thrown him a curveball that would make Lefty Grove weep with envy, and he needed some time on his own. To think. I just need to think. His first impulse was to go stra...
Gummer,” recap of Season One, Episode Nine, in which I realized four constant themes in my work thus far and wrote a song about it. Here are the complete lyrics, to be sung to the tune of “My Favorite Things”: Meryl and Sondheim and Richard Santorum Bettelheim’s witches and Whoopi in Forum Adolf ...