There is little obvious poetry in managing the day to day. But this month, spend some time with musicians who are scholars of the small emotional spaces that pop music can often overlook, artists who find magic in the maintaining.
Two recent and very different books share in the conviction that writers must take a good look at the world around them and report what they have witnessed.
The Pioneers is historian and Point Breeze native David McCullough’s retelling of the settlement of the wilderness northwest of the Ohio River, which contained the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
New Dimension Comics was unceremoniously ousted from Century III Mall in February. Thanks to decades of fans and friends, it was back open with superhuman speed.