Appraisals, obituaries, articles and facts about Paul Newman, the hustler, the sting, the man who ate 50 hardboiled eggs and went on to donate millions to people in need.
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In Memoriam: Paul Newman
Monday
by Louis Wittig
5:07 on Friday evening—already into the weekend, already into my time—and I was still in the office. I leaned backwards against the printer and tried to match my [...]
Opulence
by Sarah Bloom
Walking the railroad tracks
Through the bowing pine, a pile
Of stones as big as foot-
stools and out of place, through
dense forest that closed in on
us, the clouds’ accomplice,
on [...]
Mister Foe
A barge of movie information trolling across the horizon. Of your computer screen, that is. This week’s pick, Mister Foe. A macabre and funny coming of age tale set in [...]
What Lenin told Gorky
by Gary Lehmann
In the very midst of the Revolution, Lenin made a telling admission.
One evening, in the home of Y. P. Peshkova, while listening to a Beethoven sonata, he told [...]
Leonard Twitty, Savior of Lost Children
by Alexis E. Santi
He smoothed out his daily allowance on the counter of Wop Zsu’s. He pet it twice and then turned over to Honest Abe’s nice beard and [...]
