Our culture’s Hallmark Card celebration of St. Valentines Day is a shadow, a feeble, lame, Christianized, commercialized remnant of the savage splendor
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First Published in New York Times July 7, 1996 MAJ. JOHN MASON, or rather his statue, rededicated in Windsor last month, is
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“I submitted, yielded, obeyed to possess and be possessed, by place.” -Sam Libby This is, without a doubt, high art in the
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Writing spoils reading for the writer. A preoccupation with style and narrative voice makes any text which lacks snap seem insipid, execrable,
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Journalist/author Sam Libby returns to the land of his birth at a critical juncture in his own life and in the life of his small
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Original Niggah Niggah of Babylon Niggah of Rome Niggah of Venice Niggah of Berlin Niggah of Pittsburgh Chosen to be Original Niggah
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Sam Libby for the New York Times CITIES with imperial pretensions often claim to have been built, like Rome, on seven hills.
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