Having reached the overripe age of ninety, I often wonder how my sons truly rate me as a dad. Did my dear wife and I do the right things in nurturing them, raising them, guiding them? Did they truly believe we were always there for them, rooting for them, understanding their ambitions and dreams? Above all, did […]
We’re shining a spotlight on Lynn Norris, the multi-talented audiobook narrator of Warren Adler’s highly-charged political thriller The Casanova Embrace. What do you look for in a project? Is there a particular genre you gravitate towards? What initially drew you to The Casanova Embrace? Generally, when I’m reading the audition material for an audiobook project, I’m […]
Happy #TeacherAppreciationDay! In 1949 when I was twenty-one years old I took a creative writing course at the New School in Manhattan taught by Professor Don M. Wolfe. He had been my freshman English teacher at New York University, where I graduated in 1947, just two months shy of my twentieth birthday. Dr. Wolfe assigned […]
“Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai ‘Ngaje Ngbi’, the House of God. Close to its summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.” -“The Snows […]
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! From the moment I entered the hushed, sacred precinct of the Brownsville Children’s Library in Brownsville, Brooklyn, back in the mid-1930s, I have been a passionate advocate of the public library. My most profoundly joyous memory is walking through the crowded, noisy, aroma-filled atmosphere of Sutter Avenue, between rows of pushcarts selling anything edible […]
Comical and cruel. The War of the Roses conquers and entertains Teatro Eliseo staged “The War of the Roses” The War of the Roses at the Teatro Eliseo the descent into the underworld of a couple (apparently) perfect Eliseo Theater. Applause to the interpreters of “La guerra dei Roses” “The War of the Roses,” the […]
Harney: First off, tell us a little bit about yourself. Warren: I was born in Brooklyn during the Depression. My father was always unemployed and that’s what really spurred me to take control of my own destiny. I never wanted to be dependent on someone else for my happiness and well-being. I’ve wanted to be […]
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