Literature

See Jane Run

April 2, 2009

The clock is ticking in 33 Variations, the gentle, thoughtful play starring Jane Fonda at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theater. Playwright Moisés Kaufman explores the dual dilapidations of two characters who straddle past and present, fiction and history: musicologist Katherine Brandt (Fonda) and Ludwig Van Beethoven (Zach Grenier) both find themselves rushing to complete works (her…

Books, Literature, Writing

James Purdy 1914-2009

March 13, 2009

“My writing is concerned with the soul, with the unknown forces of the psyche. A British writer said I write under the skin, which I liked. In a spiritual sense, the real life of man is going on inside. It’s not what he says or does, it’s something else. The only way, I think, one…