by dave petraglia | Jun 19, 2018 | CULTURE, PERSONALITIES |
(First Published in Mojave River Review – June 2018 – Volume 4 Number 1) One look at the picture gives Will no hint of the heroic Olympic pedigree. Or their history. He sees in the photo no naughty Miley, cheery Gwyneth, brooding Klute, or even a steamy...
by dave petraglia | Dec 5, 2016 | PERSONALITIES, POLITICS |
(From a interview of Donald Trump consisting of Robert De Niro’s on and off-screen quotes, held at the offices of The Tribeca Citizen in Lower Manhattan. First published in The Coffeelicious – December 4, 2016)) President: “Are you talking to me? The guy who...
by dave petraglia | Aug 14, 2016 | PERSONALITIES |
(First published in Crab Fat Magazine – August 2016) It began with ‘equivalence’, the idea made the atom bomb real. And probably the cell phone. But I hope not the Apple one. Just now does your science pronounce that matter can, after all, be created from the...
by dave petraglia | Apr 4, 2016 | CULTURE, MUSIC, PERSONALITIES |
(First published in North American Review – April 4, 2016) I’m Denny Pell, and that was the year I changed my last name to Dorito. Legally. Because I could. I was a newly-minted lawyer then. And I liked the word. I liked filing the papers. While I’ve always...
by dave petraglia | May 17, 2015 | CULTURE, PERSONALITIES |
(First published in Prairie Schooner – 5/15/2015) She never appeared in the play he wrote about her. When her character left the story in protest, ‘Dreams of an Indigo Wind’ was abandoned in 1951 by Tennessee Williams the same year he began work on it....
by dave petraglia | Apr 16, 2014 | PERSONALITIES |
(First published in Thought Catalog, March 14, 2014) Two presidents loved me. Richard Nixon and Barrack Obama. I didn’t even like Nixon. I don’t like Obama. But both of them saved my life. That’s love, right? For the purposes of explaining this theory, I want to say...
