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“Water is important to people who do not have it,” wrote Joan Didion in “Holy Water,” her 1968 essay, “and the same is true of control.”

James Kwak is the author, with Simon Johnson, of 13 Bankers, an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and is aftereffects, set within the larger context of the role of financial power throughout American history.

At night, all tucked away in bed, or on couch, or on chair, or atop refrigerator, or on stove, or curled up on toilet seat, or wrapped round toilet’s base, or in bathtub, or under bed, or in dresser, or in sink, in every case near dozing, I’d sometime hear the tapping, the tap tapping, the tap tap tapping of frinky, frinky at long last taken to wearing tap shoes.

On Saturday, August 28th, after several weeks of written exchanges, The Straddler traveled to South Orange, New Jersey to pay a visit to Monsignor Richard Liddy.

At the far south end of the boardwalk, one door down from the entrance to the Tropicana, the window of a Hooters franchise advertises its famous buffalo wings.

DAVID SCRONCE Who is Mary Astor? Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke Played Brigid O’Shaughnessy Who called herself Miss Wonderly,

“Why haven’t I / written more love letters?”  When remembering Rane Arroyo, this the last line of his poem “A Fake Owl,” will probably always come to mind.

I Heroic icons produced by the story of American history have often been put to use in the service of the office of the presidency, typically to harmonize as well as possible the President’s preexisting personality traits or image with a ready-made figure evocative of “the real America” or “what America is all about.“