J.Macon King & Iris Jamahl Dunkle poetry at Mill Valley Library
Belonging to a Place: Two Poets on Place as Legacy Thursday, October 1, 2026 6:00pm – 8:00pm Mill Valley Library Mill Valley, CA Creekside Room* In the work of J.Macon […]
Disclosure Day : A(nother) Metaphysical Movie Review
Disclosure Day: A(nother) Metaphysical Movie Review From Robert V. Tobin DIRECTOR: Stephen Spielberg CAST: Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo SCREENPLAY: David Koepp CIMEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kamiński MUSIC: John Williams * * […]
High Heels and Hollow Points or The Girl Who Knew Too Little
High Heels and Hollow Points or The Girl Who Knew Too Little by Dianne Reeves Angel Whoever said […]
“The Most Interesting Woman in the World… you’ve never heard of” Part 2
(Continued from Part 1) Lucretia Osborn McKleroy: “The Most Interesting Woman in the World… you’ve never heard of” by J.Macon King California, Family, Happiness and Tragedy Relocated to Monterey […]
“The Most Interesting Woman in the World… that you never heard of:”
Lucretia Osborn McKleroy: “The Most Interesting Woman in the World… you’ve never heard of” by J.Macon King Photos courtesy of the William H. McKleroy family. Lucretia Perry Osborn McKleroy […]
The Devil Wears Prada 2 A(nother) Metaphysical Movie Review
A(NOTHER) METAPHYSICAL MOVIE REVIEW From Robert V. Tobin DIRECTOR: David Frankel WRITERS: Aline Brosh McKenna and Lauren Weisberger MAIN ACTORS: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blount and Stanley Tucci DIRECTOR […]
Lucretia Osborn McKleroy Poetry
Lucretia Osborn McKleroy — Personal Poetry plus Bio: “The Most Interesting Woman in the World…that you never heard of” Immortality My son, you are now a part of all that’s […]
Margery Cunningham poem Merits
Merits by Margery Cunningham What makes a poem good? I’ve asked around— a solid, old professor a languid drape across his lectern, shifted a bit, sloe-eyed, sputtered aphorisms and conceits. […]
Small Potatoes
Small Potatoes essay by Susanna Solomon (written in SFO, while waiting for a plane) I’m a woman of a certain age, and just recently, realized I will always be a […]
Project Hail Mary—A(NOTHER) METAPHYSICAL MOVIE REVIEW
A(NOTHER) METAPHYSICAL MOVIE REVIEW Project Hail Mary By Robert V. Tobin DIRECTOR: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller PERFORMERS: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz WRITERS: Andy Weir (novel) and Drew […]
The Assignment — short fiction by Susanna Solomon
The Assignment by Susanna Solomon “Sorry You Did Not Reveal Yourself to be Human” (From a recorded message) Monday Krok put his headset down. He wasn’t […]
The Man Who (really) Fell to Earth
The Man Who (really) Fell to Earth: Philip K. Dick – The internationally celebrated Sci-Fi writer (who most people never heard of). THE DICK AND DAVID CONNECTION “Just like we […]
Philip K. Dick Bonus Speed Round
From Anne R. Dick’s book “Anne and the Twentieth Century” : “Richard Rubenstein (Anne’s first husband) received a modest monthly income from a property his mother owned in Quincy, Illinois, […]
Anne R. Dick’s “Total Recall”
Anne R. Dick’s “Total Recall”: In conversation with J.Macon King (republished and revised from Mill Valley Literary Review, Summer 2016.) JMK: Which character (in the […]
Chasing Nirvana memoir
One woman’s gripping firsthand account of falling into—and eventually escaping—a female guru–led cult as she seeks her own personal awakening. Chasing Nirvana: A Seeker’s Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation […]