Channel Surfing
Hank KaletPolitical commentary, arts criticism, journalism.
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Monday Music: Tim Curry's Forgotten Classic
CBS Sunday Morning — the only CBS news show worth bothering with these days — had a feature story on the great actor Tim Curry to draw attention to the October 2025 release of his memoir, Vagabond. The story focused on his acting career pla...
Sunday Poem: An Early Effort
It can be interesting to go back to an earlier writing self to see what it was like back in one’s youngest days. I’ve been doing this a lot lately, as part of my Kerouac project and a long essay I’ve been working on that looks at the impact...
Saturday Syllabus, Aug. 8
Jeet Heer’s podcast at The Nation focuses on the New McCarthyism or, as he puts it, “an imaginary monster that the Republicans are playing out. It’s our old friend, the Red Menace.”
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Heer, and guest Chris Lehmann, discuss the anti-le...
Nuclear War
Some buttons from my earlier, punkier days.
We continue to live in the shadow of the atomic bomb. Today marks 81 years since the first use of an atomic bomb as a weapon of war against Japan.
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The United States dropped the first bomb...
World A-Blaze
I wrote this over the last week. The epigraph is from Gary Snyder’s Riprap, & Cold Mountain Poems. It is a companion piece to another, unfinished essay that focuses more on my health struggles. Both are part of what I am calling “The Keroua...
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Reporter, poet, essayist, teacher. Author of As an Alien in a Land of Promise, I live in New Jersey with my wife Annie and our two dogs.
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