March 2015 - kristen j. tsetsi

Writer’s Lament: “O’, Writing!”

It’s not hard to imagine a young Dorothy Parker sitting at her Catholic school desk, an arm curled around her paper so the teacher and the girls sitting nearby can’t see what she’s writing (definitely not the assignment). Or Hunter S. Thompson at his school desk, but without an arm covering his work. Just writing … Read more

Have all the legends already been made?

There’s a prisoner at San Quentin the staff call “the bird man.” That’s what the bird man, whose real name is Mike Miller, says they call him, anyway. Ever since he arrived at San Quentin, he says in an episode of MSNBC’s “Lockup,” he’s been a bird magnet. They perch on his shoulders, sit in … Read more