"Review of The Magnate " by Eduardo Correia and James P. White

Review of THE MAGNATE (Gullane Filmes, Production Company; Johnny Araujo, Director; Chorao, leader of the band Charlie Brown, jr., writer; cast, Paulo Vilhena, the magnate, Rosanne Mulholland, Maria Luisa Mendonca, chico Diaz)

The beginning...

"St. Stephens Historical Overview" by John Sledge

"Hobuckintoopa" the Indians called it. Situated atop limestone bluffs overlooking the Tombigbee River, it offered numerous advantages for a settlement--plentiful water and game and a commanding elevation above the river, where the first shoals...

"Monkey" by John Sledge

On the eve of the American Civil War, Montgomery, Alabama was a provincial state capital with only 9,000 residents, half of them slaves. Dirt streets ran through the town and cotton and corn grew right up to the...

"Duende" by John Sledge

In so many ways, flamenco seems the very essence of Spain. Colorful, passionate, exotic and intense, its origins shrouded in mystery, this artistic melding of music and dance has long provided stock imagery for Iberian tourist brochures and...

"Poems" by Helene Cardona

"Walter Feldman" by Jason Lovvorn

"When an artist becomes complacent, he begins to be a manufacturer of sausages," Walter Feldman once noted.^[i] Complacency, however, has not been a problem for this artist during his long and varied career.

A painter since the age of 12, Feldman...

"First Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival" by Eduardo Correia

The First Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival is being held in Los Angeles. It opens Friday, March 7 and lasts until March 9. LABRFF co-founders Meire Fernandes and Nazareno Paulo Neto say that 35 Brazilian films will be shown. Many are premiering...

"Not Looking" by Travis Craig

At the California Pizza Kitchen, Reagan Airport, D.C., I sit at my table watching the counter and hope that the Chicken Caesar Salad sandwich just “up” is not mine because I don’t like the way it looks.

It’s mine.

My waitress, Ethiopia...

"Lee" by John Sledge

How to assess Robert E. Lee? There have always been strongly opposed views. After his death in 1870, he was both lionized and reviled. Former Confederate general Jubal Early expressed the sentiment that would obtain among white Southerners for...

"St. John's" by John Sledge

Imagine spending four years immersed in some of Western civilization’s greatest books. And imagine discussing these books around a small table each day with a handful of fellow-travelers. That is what students do at St. John’s College campuses...

"Poems by James Schevill" by James Schevill

"Southern Bound" by John Sledge

How to assess Robert E. Lee? There have always been strongly opposed views. After his death in 1870, he was both lionized and reviled. Former Confederate general Jubal Early expressed the sentiment that would obtain among white Southerners for...

"A Crack in the Bubble" by Richard Zeikowitz

7 P.M. was announced by the discordant sounding of church bells throughout the old city of Zurich. John was making his way along a path that followed the canal which separated the two old sections of the city. There was a late summer chill in...

"A Crack in the Bubble" by Richard Zeikowitz

7 P.M. was announced by the discordant sounding of church bells throughout the old city of Zurich. John was making his way along a path that followed the canal which separated the two old sections of the city. There was a late summer chill in...

"Book Clubs" by John Sledge

They go by a variety of names – Le Salon, The Blue Stockings, Second Thursday, Point Clear Book Club and The Book Group. On almost any given day in the Bay area, it is a good bet that somewhere a group of enthusiastic readers are gathered together...

"Two For the Show: Academy Award Filmwriters Harry Brown and Robert Pirosh" by James White

When Robert Pirosh left New York City for Hollywood in 1935, he mailed this letter to directors, producers, and story editors: Dear (name of recipient):

I like words. I like fat buttery words such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I...

"On Writing a Novel: Three Letters from John Clellon Holmes" by James White

When at thirty I arrived at Brown University as a new graduate student in the writing program, I had never taken a creative writing class. I had published roughly a dozen stories, but had not met any novelist, or...

"Brothel" by John Sledge

They were “disorderly girls” -- prostitutes, pickpockets, shoplifters and the like -– who inhabited the lower rungs of 18th-century British society. Authorities routinely rounded them up and threw them into wretched prisons where they languished...

"Review of Two Films by Donald Cammell: White of the Eye and Wild Side" by James White

On July 31 and August 1, American Cinematheque in Los Angeles (americancinematheque.com) sponsored two double-featured evenings showing four films of Donald Cammell. On the first night, Performance (the first film featuring Mick Jagger) and...

"Augusta Jane Evans" by John Sledge

She is the most famous author the Port City has produced. She died when this century was young, yet even with the passage of all these years no other local writer has approached her stature.

Augusta Jane Evans was...

"An Interview with R.V. Cassill" by

R.V. Cassill was my first fiction writing teacher, though he has never met me. In 1991, while an undergraduate at the University of South Alabama, I took Modern Short Story; my textbook was The Norton Anthology of Short...

"Foote" by John Sledge

Reynolds Price called him “the last of the Southern gentlemen.” Shelby Foote mesmerized millions of Americans with his rich, syrupy accent, graying beard and sad eyes in Ken Burns’ 1990 PBS documentary, “The Civil War.” Though he had written...

"Poems by Mary Gray Hughes" by Mary Gray Hughes

"Review of Michelle Richmond's " by John Hafner

In "The Man with the Blue Guitar," Wallace Stevens' Man states that "Things as they are/ Are changed upon the blue guitar." I thought of that line and that poem about the necessary merger of imagination and reality while I read Michelle Richmond...

"A Walter Feldman Chronology" by Jason Lovvorn

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1925.

Attended youth classes at Boston Museum School.

Entered Yale University in 1942.

Served in U.S. Army, Infantry, European Theater, where he earned the combat infantry badge, the purple heart, and four battle...

"The Harry Ransom Center For The Humanities" by Steven Smith

The building in which the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is housed on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin has been described as everything from a "windowless box" to a "cold storage unit". The architecture...

"Willie Morris" by John Sledge

Just a good ole boy. That was how he thought of himself. Yet when Willie Morris died at age 64 early this past August, the South lost more than an ordinary Bubba, it lost one of its most distinguished and compelling voices. As news of this immensely...

"Power and Poetry: A Review of " by Claiborne Walthall

A few years ago, I was watching a television program in Germany while on an exchange. My host snickered when a loud and glitzy advertisement came on the screen for the Backstreet Boys, a popular pop music group of five...

"Poems by Charu Suri" by Charu Suri

"Review of Lance Lee, A Poetics for Screenwriters (Austin: U of Texas P, 2001), 145 pp." by Lia Hotchkiss

With his concise yet detailed book A Poetics for Screenwriters, Lance Lee has written the ideal companion volume to any methodologically based manual of Hollywood screenwriting. His book offers not a method...

"The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy" by John Sledge

Editor’s Note: It has gone the way of the dinosaurs. The British aristocracy is no more. It took a long time to pass away, over a hundred years in fact. But the recent victory of Tony Blair’s Labour government in...

"Poems by James Schevill" by James Schevill

"Achilles" by John Sledge

’Tis a season of war. And though we in the West like to think of ourselves as a peaceful people, the reality is that we are heir to a warrior tradition stretching back millennia. It begins with Achilles, tempestuous, passionate and fearsome...

"NEA, Regional, and Private Support for Individual Artists" by Jules White

While direct grants to individuals awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts are not as numerous, there are many grants available through regional arts councils and private funding, as well as through state arts agencies. This article...

"Homer" by John Sledge

He is the first of all our poets, and arguably still the greatest. Yet we know so little of him. Even his name is enigmatic, Homer, meaning simply "the hostage." He lived sometime during the eighth century...

"Two Poems" by Rick Noguchi

"A Literary Ramble Through New Orleans" by John Sledge

Our first view of New Orleans came as we raced across the broad back of Lake Pontchartrain. Its crowded skyline glimmered in the late afternoon haze and from that distance it looked like any other major...

"The City of Your Final Destination" by Jonathan Schulte

The City of Your Final Destination
Director: James Ivory
Producer: Paul Bradley, Pierre Proner
Screenwriter: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I was pleasantly surprised last night with three-time Academy Award Winning Director James Ivory’s latest...

"Frank Turner Hollon Interview" by John Sledge

Frank Turner Hollon, 36, author of the newly published novella , is an attorney by day and a writer by night, talented in both endeavors but completely unpretentious. He is a partner...

"The Transforming Eye of Kathleen Alcalá" by Rob Johnson

Three years ago I began researching a type of story written by Mexican and Mexican-American writers called cuentos de fantasmas, literally "phantom" or "ghost" stories, but what I would generally describe as supernatural...

"Greenville, Mississippi: A Literary Profile" by John Sledge

Editor’s Note: Greenville, Miss. (population 42,000), is famous for its many writers, among them Hodding Carter, Walker Percy, David Cohn, Shelby Foote and Ellen Douglas. I recently visited this Delta town to explore its remarkable literary...

"I am Everyone I Meet" by James White

I AM EVERYONE I MEET, RANDOM ENCOUNTERS ON THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW

By Susan Salter Reynolds June 7, 2009

Tabloid Books: 134 pp. paper excerpts:

"In this collection of brief encounters with strangers on...

"Merging in San Francisco" by Mary Gray Hughes

You wanted to know what it was like -- this merging in San Francisco. This coming together not of a young man and young woman but of two young men, buying a house together to be for them, from now on, their home. Having a ceremony...

"Review of: Juan Frances: Live (2007)" by James White

I laughed out loud when watching this first full length film by director Amy French. The film has been shown at HBO presents The New York International Latino Film Festival, the Berkshire International Film Festival and the Chicago Latino Film...

"Spinach Days and Other Poems" by Robert Phillips

These poems are published with permission of the author. Previously published in various journals, they are also part of his book Spinach Days.

"Jesus" by John Sledge

"Even now, as we cross to the beginning of the third millennium since his birth, we count our days by his appearance on earth." So writes Thomas Cahill of Jesus Christ in a new book,

"South Africa Journal" by Jim and Doris Wolfe

August 1. Arrival

The last two hours of the flight into Cape Town were very turbulent. Elderly Chicago lady sitting with us assured us that we were dead meat if we did not take antimalarial drugs. Landing approach quite harrowing. Huge 747 fell...

"The Illiad" by John Sledge

The English poet John Keats (1795-1821) made it famous for us moderns in his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer." His much-anthologized poem reads:

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold...

"Review of The Grain" by Eduardo Correia,and James P. White

Credits: Petrus Cariry(Director); Rosemberg Cariry, Firmino Holanda and Petrus Cariry (Writers); Petrus Cariry(Executive Producer); Teta Maia, Valeria Cordeiro(Producers); Ivo Lopes Araujo(Director of Photography); Leuda Bandeira, Veronica...

"Richard Fredricks" by Richard Fredricks

RICHARD FREDRICKS, a former Principal Baritone with the Metropolitan Opera, is recognized as one of today's finest singing actors. At the Metropolitan, he debuted as Don Carlo, in La Forza del Destino, sang Don Giovanni, Barnaba in La Gioconda...

"The Battle Over the Carnal Envelope" by Chris Brown

showcases twenty years worth of celebrity drawings and paintings. Accompanied by the diary entries relevant to each sitting, Bachardy attempts to convey to the reader the "experience of a sitting," or, more importantly, to capture...

"Pelileu Then and Now" by John Sledge

I turned the small piece of coral over in my hand, its white dust chalking my fingers. My younger brother Henry was sitting across from me, his lap full of souvenirs from his recent trip to Peleliu, the isolated Pacific island where our father...

"Intruder" by John Sledge

It was a gorgeous fall afternoon. The air was crisp and clean, the sky a brilliant blue and the Chinese Tallow trees ablaze with red and yellow. I was working along my back fence, clearing away the dry...

"Poems" by John FitzGerald

I hear a faucet drip into its puddle, grown to capacity,
Striving to avoid stagnation, just to know its own emotion,
In the middle with itself, like a trinity.

The goal of essence is overflowing....

"Blood and Ceremony (from " by Kathleen Alcalá

One evening, when Estela returned, weary and hungry from her day at La Escuela de Paciencia, La Señorita had visitors in her parlor.

Other Articles on Kathleen Alcalá

"Come join us," called La Señorita as Estela entered the front hallway and...

"Life's Illusions " by James McCormick

I want to share with you some very personal experiences in the belief that with this revelation will come an awareness that beneath the very thin facade which we show our fellow man we are all of a kindred...

"Unmapped Geographies A Review of " by Charles Sweetman

0-7734-0383-01999New York

In 1997, Rainer Schulte spoke to the American Literary Translators Association commenting about how his own work as a translator affects the way he interprets...

"An Interview with Kathleen Alcalá" by Rob Johnson

I recently e-mailed Kathleen Alcalá a list of questions/observations, asking her about some of the issues raised above, and also about her new novel Treasures in Heaven. My questions and her written responses follow:

"Emily Reed" by Dan Rogers

Friday, June 2, 2000

Emily Reed died two weeks ago, and I only heard Monday.

She rated an obituary in the New York Times, and I took notice, since it was subtitled "Librarian in ’59 Alabama Racial Dispute...

"On Meeting William Faulkner and Other Excerpts from Don Bachardy's Journal" by Don Bachardy

8 March 1955 [the day after the opening of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Philadelphia]
Carson McCullers, like Chris and me, is in Philadelphia for the opening of Cat. We saw her yesterday evening at the St. James Hotel before the play. Her ...

"Poems by John Olivar" by John Olivar

"Adagio Sostenuto" by Eduardo Correia and James P. White

Pompeu Aguiar, producer/director of Adagio Sostenuto just won the award for writing the best screenplay at the inaugural Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival. He says that his new film, an urban movie, is part of the .cinema of resistance..a...

"Baghdad Burning" by John Sledge

Libraries do not fare very well in war. The latest confirmation of this melancholy fact occurred earlier this month when the Baghdad National Library and Archives was looted and burned. Thousands of books, manuscripts, letters and newspapers...

"Juke Joints" by John Sledge

Juke joints. Anyone who has traveled the rural South has seen them by the roadside –- empty and forlorn-looking most of the time, but throbbing with light and energy on Saturday nights. The word “juke” is derived from the West African word ...

"On James C. McCormick" by James White

The old fashioned eighteenth century idea of the importance of a person’s character has surely taken a beating in twenty-first century America. You seldom hear about a politician’s remarkable character, or an artist’s, a...