An Open Book

Writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten was an American Renaissance Man who epitomized the witty and rambunctious cultural scene of the Roa...

  [ During a break from blogging these past few months, I have focused more on writing poems and short stories, including the tale below tha...

   ( As anyone who has followed this blog knows, I am obsessed with the story of Jessie Reed, the ill-fated Ziegfeld Follies showgirl who ma...

Back in December 1998, I wrote an article for OUT Magazine on the legendary female impersonator Julian Eltinge. OUT rarely did historical pi...

DOROTHY KING: The Dark Side of the Roaring Twenties     It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since I wrote my detailed blog ...