Bill Pruitt reviews “Black Panther”
In this week’s CITY newspaper, Bill Pruitt responded to James A. Brown’s review of Black Panther that Bill feels is uneven and misses the complexity of the characters and the overall
[ Read More ]Street and Smith’s is back and so is Bill Pruitt with “Pennant Race 18: Curses Laid and Lifted”
Last year in Make Predictions. Win cash. we offered 100 dollars to the reader who could most accurately predict the results of the 2017 baseball season. Our friend and contributor Bill
[ Read More ]Discovering Frederick Douglass
Especially in Rochester, 2018 will be the year of Frederick Douglass as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Already dozens of events have been planned. See Frederick Douglass
[ Read More ]White-Tail Deer
George Cassidy Payne Rochester, NY icaj2000@yahoo.com POSTSCRIPT: Last week, the CITY published an extended letter by George. SEE ALSO Happy 2nd Birthday Talker and “Talker
[ Read More ]Opening Day, 1971, at Boldo’s Armory
I am the 1982 Brown University Strat-o-matic League champion, having won the World Series four games to three. Strat-o-matic is a baseball tabletop simulation game in which players are
[ Read More ]Happy 2nd Birthday Talker and “Talker Birthday Jeremiad” from Bill Pruitt
In Happy First Birthday! Distinguished poet Bill Pruitt offers “Ode to the Talker” Bill Pruitt kindly offered “Ode to the Talker.” Another year has passed and Bill
[ Read More ]Impromptu poetry slam at Lux Lounge
As we have happily gained new readers and as the archives are filling up, from time to time we reach back into Talker past. (BELOW) Coming up on two years now, we went to Lux Lounge for an
[ Read More ]Storyteller Bill Pruitt interweaves the lives of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
We’ve know Bill Pruitt for his poetry and prose gracing the pages of the magazine. Bill is also a master story teller. On Tuesday, a large crowd at the Brighton Memorial
[ Read More ]Pruitt breaks new ground with “The Pennant Races in Rhyming Couplets.” Keeps eyes on the Talker baseball prediction prize.
As you may know, recently in Make Predictions. Win cash., Talker offered a $100 cash prize to the Talker who could most accurately predict the results of the 2017 baseball season. The premise is
[ Read More ]Says who you can’t get rich being a writer.
In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism to reprint “Imperium in Imperio: Sutton Griggs’s Imagined War of 1898”, we explained how a fine academic journal was kindly reprinting our article on the
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