EAST of ELIA
EAST of ELIA essay by J.Macon King If Elia Kazan’s East of Eden is one of your favorite films, your excitement viewing the Netflix series, as well as your reservation, […]
Chris Olander Poetry: Inspiration from Nature
Chris Olander Poetry: Inspiration from Nature To the Earth She is the weaver of mysterious fabrics spinning rainbow threads from her crystal alignments stitching images in her material’s maze. Designing […]
Foul Ball —Candlestick Park Memoir
Foul Ball Sports Memoir by Matthew Snyderman The mid-1970s edition of the San Francisco Giants tended far more toward the mediocre than the awesome and their home, the fog-shrouded Candlestick […]
Tushar Sen: 3 Quirky Poems
Tushar Sen: 3 Quirky Poems These selections offers a quirky and upbeat take on the subtle absurdities embedded in our daily routines, tech dependencies, and professional structures. Written with […]
Tahoe Literary Festival Kickoff Celebration 2026
Tahoe Literary Festival Kickoff Celebration 2026 Join us as we open the Tahoe Literary Festival with an inspiring evening that celebrates the power of words and community. The festival kickoff […]
Stewards of the Obsolete
Stewards of the Obsolete From Lindy Krushas “Maybe this is just a dreamMaybe we are sleeping in rooms filled with metal shelves…If we put our ears to those shelves […]
HEREAFTER & OTHERWISE: Cinematic evolution of Clint Eastwood
A(nother) Metaphysical Movie Review from Robert V. Tobin HEREAFTER & OTHERWISE: Cinematic evolution of Clint Eastwood From rugged to urbane cowboys and many terse characters in between, Clint Eastwood’s acting persona […]
J.Macon King & Iris Jamahl Dunkle poetry at Mill Valley Library
The reading a cancelation could not cancel: Belonging to a Place: Two Poets on Place as Legacy The reading a cancelation could not cancel …Epic in spite of, and because […]
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 […]