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Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, … Continue reading →

Staggered as we are by the grim irony of the Boston Marathon bombing on the 13th anniversary of Edward Gorey’s death, still we celebrate the lives that will keep that day in our memories for years to come.  And in … Continue reading →

A tip of my tulle-trimmed bowler to Google for their Amphigoreyesque 2/22 Google Doodle honoring the brilliantly crepuscular artist and genius Edward Gorey! And another hat-tip to actress/author Renee Gibbons and actress/director Margot Breier for their dramatic readings at Edward’s … Continue reading →

*Boo du Jour is an occasional award for outstanding failure to cope with reality. Animals Can’t Talk by Kathleen O’Brien Wilhelm Posted on February 10, 2013 at 9:40 pm in the Avon-AvonLakePatch            Signs that read “Deer Crossing” and the like … Continue reading →

Carol writes from Charlottesville, VA:   “Thanks to my old college friend Nancy Greenspan in Bethesda, where she & I & the final proof copy of “EG On Stage” linked up, this pioneering multimedia print book is out at last! In … Continue reading →

Determined to exist in time for the holidays, the print version of Edward Gorey On Stage: Playwright, Director, Designer, Performer: a Multimedia Memoir continues to inch toward publication.  Over the past week this valiant little volume has fought off attacks … Continue reading →

When we left Jonah Lehrer (see my post of  July 31), his career was in flames, torched by the revelation that he’d made up quotations from Bob Dylan, as well as “repurposed” large chunks of writing previously published elsewhere, for … Continue reading →