Annalise stirred from her slumber. There was shock at first; she wondered where she was. The thirty-one-year-old propped up on an elbow and scanned the darkness; the tinge of a hangover lurked behind her eyes. A line of light indicated the foot of a closed door. Yes, it was the…

The 2015 film entitled Carol has a cult following. One of its sharpest fan hooks is “Carol’s letter” or simply, “the letter;” it is a voice-over by Cate Blanchett that begins the film's ending. The attached image is the letter as it appears in screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s script. The superfluous…

Reginald Fuller Lead Journalist — Southeast Asia The Times London, England Carol Aird c/o Longbow Furniture 50551 4th Avenue Manhattan, NY 10003 1 March 1968 Dear Carol, I apologize for not writing sooner. I hope you remember meeting me at the Ritz Tower Hotel in the spring of 1965. I…

How does a 62-year-old straight, southern man fall in love with a film about the romance between two women in mid-20th-century New York? What is it about director Todd Haynes’s Carol that drew me in like few movies/books ever have? Yes, I added “books”; after watching the film on a…

Great hackberry, you have died

I adore Rooney Mara greatly Yet we differ so innately She’s vegan, talented, wealthy I, an omnivore, poor, unhealthy

Gone are the clocks and bosses The tallies of wins and losses

My brother, ten years my senior, was neither sporty nor macho, so the more mainstream fellows my sisters dated were interesting creatures to adolescent Danny. As one of them waited for my sister to iron her hair (yes, steam iron and board), he shared a vivid childhood account. Once, he…

Via pluck and ferocity, a scrappy orphan escapes horror to ultimately be “raised by a village” in Depression-era Alabama. As Tinley Reat waited for her friends to hail a cab, she stepped to the newsstand. The Friday, December 4, 1942 issue of the Mobile-Press Register caught her eye. She silently read its headline, Twenty B-24s Bomb Naples. Tinley’s watch was in the shop, so she glanced up at the…