I can't get the death of Elmore Leonard out of my mind. So please bear with me. As you know, I had a highfalutin education in the English novel at Lafayette and Stanford, an education I love and cherish. I was taught only A-list writers: Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Charles [...]
One stalwart Zohner, mendozaline, recommended I read John Mortimer's autobiography, "Clinging to the Wreckage." I got it, love it and was reading it late last night when I came upon this passage: "The fact that audiences at the National Theatre rarely break bottles over one another's heads, and that opera [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.