David Yaffe

You are 23 and you have not given up, not yet. You are the age of Keats when he had his annus mirabilis and gave us the odes, “Hyperion” and “Eve of St. Agnes” with little fanfare. Did you think you were Keats, or did you think you were over? Maybe you were like Keats: You knew you were over before … Continue Reading

Los Angeles, 1971. God has decided to speak through Judee Sill, a skinny girl with round glasses and a rap sheet. Between holding up gas stations and liquor stores, dealing and scoring junk, turning tricks, forging checks, and sleeping in a ’55 Cadillac (in shifts with four others), her training as … Continue Reading