I read a short snipped about Taylor-Burton in a fictional novel and was so interested in their dynamic/furious/romantic relationship that I ended up reading this book.It was so much fun to read (a bit sad at times) but wow...what a crazy and amazing couple. I love that it intertwined not only th...
WHEN I WAS COOL: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School.A Memoir by Sam Kashner. HarperCollins 0060005661 336pps $25.95A memoir of a then skinny, naive teenage boy, from a liberal, fairly well-off Jewish family, who goes from thinking Walt Whitman had something to do with food - Maybe the Whitman Sam...
The untitled poem is a nostalgic farewell to Wales, written in a style influenced by his friend and countryman Dylan Thomas. “Portrait of a Man Drowning” was apparently written in November of 1965, while Burton was filming the bleak, Cold-War era film, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Neither p...
A Bathing Suit in the Hot Tub In spite of everything, I always went back to Gregory. I didn’t like the abuse, but I always felt that I learned something talking to him. He seemed completely himself. Everyone else was so happy to hide from you, and maybe if you lived long enough you’d discover som...
