There’s a short-story axiom: Begin in medias res. These stories open already wound tight, demanding release. Characterization doesn’t necessarily account for the situations his protagonists are...
For the most part, presidential inaugurations are moments of communal pageantry. There is music and poetry. There are oaths to recite and vows to make. Everyone...
Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own...
