Finally finished “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse” — it took three, 1.5 hr reading sessions, almost 2 months apart, because…? time and demands on time… Writer Howard…
Exposing Perle Noire: the development of Meditations for Joséphine’ by Julia Bullock “Miss Baker… has, alas, almost become a little lady. Her caramel-colored body, which overnight became a legend in Europe, is still magnificent,…
“Back then, I knew more things, more of the dirty tricks which history has covered up. I discussed them only with my friends. Now things have gotten all mixed up in my head. In spite…
Harlem & Hughes on My Mind It was thrilling to be the first singer offered an artist residency at The Met. On my first research visit, my mind reeled as I walked through gallery after…
