Please join us for the latest episode of The Agency Podcast. Listen right here or look for us in all the good podcast places (except Spotify…..we’re no longer on Spotify). This week: Everything Everywhere All at OnceAll the Old KnivesJuliaTokyo Vice….and lots more conversation Email… Read More
Sheila and I have been creating a lot of images in collage lately, both individually and together. In our latest collaborative effort, we revisit an old copy of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I don’t know where we got this book. It was once the property… Read More
The Agency Reading List is slowly growing. As books come up during The Agency Podcast, I’ve been adding them. Looking for an engaging read? Check out the list. Or, if you’re in Long Branch, in the SW corner of Toronto, stop by the 27th Street… Read More
Girl to City is a recently published memoir of singer-songwriter Amy Rigby. I discovered the existence of this book more or less by accident. One day when I was surfing the YouTube, I got stuck on watching performances by Amy Rigby, including several with Wreckless… Read More
I never imagined I would find myself writing a graphic novel. After all, I was never really into comics as a kid nor did I get excited by more literary comic book efforts as an adult. It wasn’t until Jacob Yerex read my little book,… Read More
I enjoyed comic books as a kid but I was never all geeky about it. I didn’t have a collection. I didn’t keep them in mint condition. The only time I went to a Comic-Con was for work, and it was overwhelming. Comics were disposable… Read More
I don’t have any kind of plan as to the books I read. I come to them or they come to me in all kinds of different ways. I like it that way. I read Yeshiva Girl by Rachel Mankowitz because I’ve followed Rachel’s blog,… Read More
I just read Tommy James’ 2010 autobiography, Me, the Mob and the Music. You remember Tommy James, right? Lots of big hits. Hanky Panky. Crimson and Clover. Mony Mony. Catchy pop tunes. They don’t really interest me much, but his story is fascinating. Tommy James… Read More
How sweet is that? Thank you so much for the kind words, L & C! This reminds me there are plenty of excellent titles available in the Twenty Seventh Street Book Box. These books are FREE. You can take them home to read, or give… Read More
The cover of my copy of Dave Van Ronk’s memoirs, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, proclaims: “The life story that inspired the Coen Brothers Movie Inside Llewyn Davis”. That wasn’t enough to stop me from reading the book. Sure, Inside Llewyn Davis was an OK… Read More
27th Street 