Make-A-Wish Foundation, a non-profit organization granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, held its Spirits, Wine and Wishes Benefit at Pier 60 this past month. Aimed at creating life-changing experiences for children and their families, providing them with hope, strength, and joy during difficult times, Make-A-Wish has granted over 500,000 wishes since its […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
From within an Avalanche of rubble…. Cactus spikes form, erecting defensive stubble Where the dimples of a smile ought to reign, Gazans strain like the foreign Canary Pine trees dry out in Palestine. Brave men transform into solid sticks yearning to lift concrete Stones off beloveds’ bones … They cannot. Cage-like crosses of […]
