From: Randy PoeSubject: My Thoughts on Buck Dear Bob, Like you, I sit up half the night writing to get things off my chest and/or out of my system. Even though I suspect you’re not a big country fan, I thought I’d share this with you – from one late-night writer to another: I was […]

Where I went to college, at Middlebury, in Vermont, they had what was known as the 4-1-4 system. What that meant was the first semester ended before Christmas, not typical when most schools required five classes and finals were AFTER Christmas, the spring semester started in the middle of February, and in the middle, for […]

I was standing in line for the bathroom and the sixtysomething guy in front of me told me to turn my Blackberry off, to leave my work at the office. I was at Carnegie Hall for the teacher awards for the foundation Felice runs. Before the event there was a dinner at the Trattoria across […]

We stopped by at the restaurant so Felice could say hello to Michael.  Dominick Dunne was in the corner, everybody was wearing a suit, and I wondered if I had it wrong, if I’d been stuck on the shore like Allen Ginsberg in the eighties, his appearance and style befitting the fifties.  I’ve got the […]