“It suddenly dawned on me that I’d never had a lecture in medical school on how to tell if someone is dead.” Book excerpt of “Singular Intimacies” on the cover of West Side Spirit newspaper.(read more...) »
Archive for May, 2009
Alistair Cooke; Childhood Malapropism
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
New York Times Dec 13, 1992 To the Editor: Reading John J. O’Connor’s tribute to Alistair Cooke, “An Icon in an Armchair Makes a Gracious Exit” , brought back a flood of memories of curling up on my parents’ bed with my mother and our dog to watch “Upstairs,... »
Another Birth at Bellevue: A New Literary Magazine
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
By ED BOLAND JR. Published: May 13, 2001 New York Times “For more than 200 years, as America’s oldest public hospital, Bellevue Hospital Center has seen the gamut of human experience and emotion. Birth and death, healing and sickness, bliss and agony are daily occurrences. And now some doctors and others at Bellevue want... »