
Category: Contributor Stuart Mitchner


Kennedy 50 Years After Dallas: A Sense of History, A Sense of Fate, A Sense of Himself

“Woman As She Is”: Robert Louis Stevenson and His American Wife

Confessions of a Cardinal Fan: Radio Nights, Tweeting Tortoises, and the 2013 World Series

A View With a Room: Dreaming of Bristol in Coleridge Country

Beyond the Social Masquerade on Verdi’s 200th Birthday

“Breaking Bad” on Verdi’s Birthday With the Rebirth of Badfinger’s “Baby Blue”

J.D. Salinger Unbound and Unbowed: “There Is Monumental Work To Be Done In This Appearance”

Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins, Honored Guests at This Year’s Book Sale

Thomas Pynchon With the Wind in His Sails: In “Bleeding Edge” New York Is “The Real Story”

“Strangest of All Strange Companions” — D.H. Lawrence and September 11

Remembering Julie Harris, Elia Kazan’s Angel and James Dean’s Guiding Light

In Dublin, Paul Muldoon Delivers Funeral Eulogy For His Mentor, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney

Nighthawks, Usherettes, and Shapely Secretaries: A New York Movie by Edward Hopper

On the Money: Front Page Fun With Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Kelly Clarkson

“The Paris Wife” Meets “The Killers”: In Hemingway Six Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures

Celebrating Vivekananda’s American Adventure on His 150th Birthday

Live From Detroit: Standing in the Shadows Searching for a Silver Lining

Before Sunrise to Sunset to Midnight — The Chemistry of Connection
Community’s Living Room Cool and Comfortable Again After Heat Wave Intrudes

Sleeping on Hallowed Ground: A Gettysburg Seance With Stephen Crane
Journey “Full of Adventure, Full of Discovery” Leads Bowen to National Humanities Medal

“Time Is a Very Considerable Place” — Beethoven Plays an Adagio for Proust’s Birthday

On His 130th Birthday — A Little Touch of Kafka in the Night
