When Laura Shovan wrote her editor’s note for the Little Patuxent Review issue on audacity, she ended it with the lines: “This is the real draw of audacity — a fascination with what happens next.” And we’re all waiting to see what’s next for our audacious editor. Shovan spent years — from 2011 to 2015 […]
Read More…Little Patuxent Review represents a literary and arts community. Most of our posts focus on literature and arts. Today we focus on our community, specifically highlighting a special member of our staff, business manager Phyllis Greenbaum. She’s our Swiss Army knife. The one who works tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure your subscriptions get mailed, […]
Read More…When Little Patuxent co-publisher Mike Clark emailed and requested that I interview his former Baltimore Sun colleague Rafael Alvarez, I launched into research mode. I also downloaded to my Kindle a copy of his latest book, Crabtown USA: Essays & Observations and began to read. Alvarez has been a screenwriter for “Homicide: Life on the Streets” […]
Read More…Ten. Do you remember hitting that double-digit birthday? Or the first time you counted to ten? You felt like a big kid. Then there were David Letterman’s famous “Top Ten Lists.” (I’m still mourning their demise.) On the eve of the millennium, the hit film “10 Things I Hate About You” opened in theaters. Bo […]
Read More…St. Valentine’s Day has come. And gone. St. Patrick’s Day is still a month away. In between, lay an opportunity ripe for the plucking. Rather than divulge outright what is afoot, let me offer for your edification a little quiz. Sharpen your yellow No. 2 pencil and your wit. Cheating will not be tolerated. (Don’t […]
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