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by Martin Achatz My daughter was born at the end of an early December snowstorm. I remember the wind that night while my wife was in ...

by Marsha Roberts I can hear her walking toward the front door, her sensible shoes shuffling closer and closer. But the door doesn’t op...

by Renée Tursi In his 1881 novel  The Portrait of a Lady , Henry James put his heroine Isabel Archer’s marriage at the story’s midpoi...

by Marcia Butler One day in the early 1970s, a friend and I played hooky from conservatory classes at The Mannes College of Music. Di...

by Donald Dewey         Louie Sad was born in Lebanon as the Maronite Christian Elias Saad. Brought to Brooklyn Heights as a child, he ...

by Paul Perilli “You take a job you become the job,” Wizard said in Martin Scorcese’s cult classic Taxi Driver . I felt much like Wiz...