The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, June 23, 2017

Il Boom

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Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) took place in an impoverished post-war Rome. The director’s Il Boom ( 1963) , currently revi...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Trouble in Paradise

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Have you ever screamed at those you love? Have you lost all patience with them at the moment when you’ve landed in paradise and you wer...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Chesapeake Journal: Still Pond

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map of Still Pond area: Alexrk2 Who are Mary J. Clark Howard, Anne Baker Maxwell and Lillie Derrigan Kelley? They were t...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Chesapeake Journal: Rock Hall of Fame

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watercolor by Hallie Cohen Rock Hall is a legendary fishing village down the road from Chestertown. Tullalah Bankhead ...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Chesapeake Journal: Sumner Hall

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photograph by Hallie Cohen Every environment has its own narrative which explains the reason for its existence or th...
Friday, June 16, 2017

The Pros and Cons of Having Dark Thoughts

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You can’t avoid dark thoughts anymore than you can prevent threatening storm clouds which eventually result in the kind ...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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