The Fall of the House of Sigerius
Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda; translated by Jonathan Reeder Hogarth, 2015; 544pp Bonita Avenue is a social-realist comedy and a nightmare thriller. Author Peter Buwalda uses three characters, each...
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ReadEasy, 16 February 2015
A new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is a weekly boat trip up the crazy river of the internet. How do YOU celebrate Friday the 13th? I always eat a live chihuahua. How about you?— R.L. Stine...
read moreRunnin’ Wild: The House of SpeakEasy Inaugurates Year 2
Undeterred by the Snowpocalypse-that-in-any-case-wasn’t, crowds flocked to City Winery on January 28 to celebrate the House of SpeakEasy’s first birthday and bless its second year of...
read moreReadEasy, 9 February 2015
A new feature for 2015, in ReadEasy we search the book stacks of the internet so you don’t have to. Just looked up THE FIRST BAD MAN on Amazon. It has 10 five star reviews and 10 one star...
read moreReviews: The Unspeakable; Amnesia
The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014; 256pp In “Matricide” Meghan Daum describes, in black-glass prose, an extraordinary cycle...
read moreReadEasy, 2 February 2015
A new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is us foraging through the underbrush of the World Wide Web so you don’t have to. I'm working on my cabaret act, which is me just singing songs from Warner...
read moreCurtain Call: Runnin’ Wild
The House of SpeakEasy will set the cat amongst the pigeons tonight at its second annual gala, Runnin’ Wild. Below, a video collage of our splenderific guests by way of introduction. Jim Dale...
read moreReadEasy, 26 January 2015
A new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is your regular scrapbook of peculiarisms, thoughts, and entertainment from the World Wide Web. I love Twitter the most during events like #sotu -- it was so lonely...
read moreJim Dale on Harry Potter, Carry On, and His Return to the West End
Jim Dale is a showman of the old school; a true renaissance performer. He’s won a Tony, two Grammys, and four Drama Desk Awards. He’s received countless other nominations, including an...
read moreStephen Lang: An Actor Prepares
Stephen Lang is an actor and a playwright and probably a very familiar face. You’re most likely one of the hundred million or so people who saw him as Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar (2009)....
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