“The best throw of the dice is to throw them away,” says an English proverb, and it’s a good one-line summary of the advice that this book offers to the compulsive gambler. But this is no moralistic treatise against making bets.... Read More

In this volume, the author adds a new name to the catalogue of women immortalized in poetry. In response to Homer’s Helen and Shakespeare’s wired-haired mistress, Allen offers Suzi, a debt-riddled coed whose beauty elates and... Read More

“It was 1915, the place was San Francisco, and America’s railroads were stealing the show,” states the author. The trio of exhibits leading this theft were a miniature mock-up of the Grand Canyon spread across an incredible six... Read More

Sales is an odd profession. Though it is the backbone of American daily commerce, there is that negative connotation to the term “seller,” as well as that fear of “being sold,” as in “being sold down the river.” In reality,... Read More

London’s famed Speakers’ Corner, soapbox plinth to generations of agitators and cranks, is a stone’s throw from Bloomsbury, an address so indelibly part of Virginia Woolf iconography that it could qualify for National Trust status.... Read More

Any poem whose significance resides only in its “meaning” will suffer from a widely unrecognized, and even less widely acknowledged, truth. The same facts, both emotional and experiential, might have been shared in an infinite number... Read More

To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. —William Blake William Blake was an English painter, engraver, and poet whose abilities were so defined... Read More

William Snow would be supremely interesting to chat with over a nice dinner. or perhaps to take a cruise with out on the open sea. As presented by MacArthur he’s got a smart-as-a-whip mind yet hardly wears it on his sleeve. Snow is... Read More