THE ESSENTIAL HARLEM DETECTIVES ~

 

H A R L E M    D E T E C T I V E S

Everyman's Library, 2024

(beautifully designed books —

paper, typeface, cloth feel, color)

DELMORE SCHWARTZ ~

 

Praise Is Traditional and Appropriate

I loved the wood because I found in it

Mushrooms, berries, beetles, birds and other words,

Hedgehogs, squirrels, memories, quarrels,

        and the damp smell

Of dead leaves, and former lives.

            I reached the first barn

— where wheat was stored—halfway up the slope

            of the ravine

And saw her dancing, glancing twinkly eyes

Full of the hope and love which all thought mean,

And slate-green, slate-blue, blue or black like the sunrise

Skies, and in their variety and in their sheen

I thought that she was looking down at me

As if she understood past, present, and futurity.

______________________________________

The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz

edited by Ben Mazer

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2024

one of the posthumously published poems

DANIEL KRAMER WAS THERE FIRST ~

 

                                                                                         Daniel Kramer, via Staley-Wise Gallery, New York

D A N I E L    K R A M E R

  May 19, 1932 ~ 2024

ALICE MUNRO ~

 

                                                                                                         Ian Willms for The New York Times

A L I C E    M U N R O

   July 10,1931 ~ 2024

JEM COHEN ~

 

   M O R E

PIRATES ~

 

R E A D     M E

ROGER CORMAN ~

 

R O G E R   C O R M A N

   1926 ~ 2024

MERCY DEE WALTON ~

 

TOMMY RIDGLEY ~

 

BLACK WALDEN ~

 

R E A D    M E

    University of Pennsylvania Press

MAX PORTER ~

 

R E A D    M E

Graywolf 2023

STEVE ALBINI ~

 

Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61

A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.

T H E   B E S T   T H I N G   Y O U ' L L   R E A D   T O D A Y 

FAREWELL, DAVID SHAPIRO ~

 

D A V I D    S H A P I R O

A friend of Longhouse ~ 

goodbye David

I'll forever remember

the phone call

from New York City

where you spoke

lovingly — poetry

art, the countryside —

nonstop

for an hour

THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE ~

 

D A N C E     M E

Verso, 2022

SEA CRUISE (REMASTERED) ~

 

NATALIA GINZBURG ~

 

R E A D    M E

New Directions, 2023

JOHN LEE HOOKER ~

 

JOHN  LEE  HOOKER

GIVE ME MORE HANNAH ARENDT ~

 

R E A D    M E

GERRY LOOSE ~

 

G E R R Y    L O O S E

S c o t l a n d

1948 ~ 2024

   our long time Longhouse friend

THE OCCUPATION OF ALCATRAZ ISLAND 1969 (Archive) ~