An Eclectic Journal of the Arts
Written in the Mirror Watch the over-the-top Douglas Sirk melodramas of the 1950s for the color, costume, design, emotion — for sheer guilty pleasure. If you catch yourself over-indulging, pull back from the spectacle to wonder how he does it, what technical magic or tricks are at work. Or lean in from another angle to […]
Spinozablue welcomes new poetry from James Croal Jackson, Mitch Corber, and Howie Good, plus new fiction by David M. Rubin. If you’d like to submit your own work, please go to the Submissions Page, and fill out the contact form as per instructions. You can bypass that form once we’ve made First Contact . . […]
The Steiner Papers Thanks to the ultra-precise grid set by the surveyor John Randel, New York was a Euclidian construct, though not at the edges where Backman Steiner walked north along the East River between X and Y Street. He cut in towards the meat of the city on a street working out from […]