Tag: (First Person)

E-mail From the West Village

Want heartache? Try explaining life on the road to the IRS.

Rich Melman’s secret police keep tabs on his staff.

Until his death last November, the author of The Sheltering Sky continued to receive a steady stream of visitors in his tiny Moroccan apartment.

In mourning for our dead, we sometimes get angry at them for leaving us. Other times we forget they’re gone. Often we’re confused. Our wounds are as big as our hearts.

To this day I maintain the confused respect for Christianity I acquired in my youth, when out of concern for my reputation as well as my everlasting soul, I began to go to church.

A former City News foot soldier looks back on the battle.