IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

My obituary of one of my favourite actors, Yaphet Kotto, was online at the Guardian last Friday, 26 March; you can link to it here . It shou...

 My obit of Lou Ottens, who invented the audio cassette, and the portable tape recorder, and had a hand in the creation of the CD, is online...

My obituary of the writer (and architect) Norton Juster was published in The Guardian online on 11 March, I am hoping it will appear in the...

I wrote this review for the Financial Times in 1999, and it was published in January of 2000. It popped up, unbidden, in my computer as ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died, aged 101, and by coincidence (or not) on the 200th anniversary of John Keats' death. See my previous pos...

For the 200th anniversary of John Keats' death, I've unearthed a long-lost poem (of mine, not his) I committed way back when & ...

Tonight on isolation row: I watched a 1964 episode of The Saint called The Lawless Lady, with Dawn Addams opposite Roger Moore (this was th...

My obit of Rush Limbaugh went up quickly last night on the Guardian's website; you can link to it here . His was the kind of life that ...

Lockdowns appear to induce looking back. I wrote this poem in August and September of 1978, and it was published forty years ago in my first...

My obit of Henry Aaron is up at the Guardian online, you can link to it here . It should be in the paper paper soon. It is pretty much as I ...

My obit of Larry King is up at The Guardian online, you can link to it here . It should appear in the paper paper soon, probably Monday. Ki...

 In 1973 I was teaching a short-term course at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, about 80 miles south of the Confederate capital ...