Appearances and publications by Broad Street Review‘s contributors.

Support for Baby Boomers

The Age for Change, a nine-chapter e-book that explores challenging issues that confront America’s over-50 population, includes a chapter on friendship by SaraKay Smullens. This interactive book is edited by Gloria Hochman. Other chapter authors include Anndee Hochman, Nissa Simon, Tim Harper and Melba Newsome. The book is available free at www.ebook.comingofage.org, and is also available through Kindle and other book-reading devices. Topics include adjusting to friendship changes, and leaving depleting relationships of all kinds; navigating the changed relationships with one’s adult sons and daughters and their families; creating a meaningful community; and dealing with an ever-ticking clock.

Harpist’s biography

Saul Davis Zlatkovsky contributed the preface and other material to Pentacle, a biography of the harpist Carlos Salzedo, by Marietta Bitter. The book is published by the American Harp Society’s Salzedo Fund Committee. CreateSpace, January 2011. 272 pages; $19.95. For more information, click here.

Dockery’s illustrations

Bob Levin’s entire introductory essay to the catalogue for the exhibition of J.T. Dockery’s illustrations for the graphic novel adaptation of Nick Tosches’s Spud Crazy at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky, has been reproduced in vinyl letters as a wall hanging so it can be read while viewing the framed art. The exhibition runs through March 26, 2011. For more information, click here.

Zinman on Ibsen

Toby Zinman is author of “50 Ways to Leave Your Torvald,” a featured article about Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in the February issue of American Theatre magazine. To read it, click here.

Becoming a Psychotherapist

Vic Schermer, a BSR music contributor as well as a Philadelphia psychologist and therapist, has co-edited On Becoming a Psychotherapist: The Personal and Professional Journey, with Robert H. Klein and Harold Bernard Oxford U. Press, January 2011). For more information, click here.

Praise for the pianist Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley’s piano performance was recently reviewed in the in the Royal Gazette Online. Her arrangement of “Steal Away” was included in countertenor Darryl Taylor’s recent Albany release, A Charm of Spirituals.

Corley Published by Walton

An arrangement of Mary Had a Baby by contributor Mary Thompson Corley was recently published by Walton Music as part of the Lynne Gackle series for developing singers.  You can listen to a clip of the arrangement here. 

Feudale on the Barnes

Contributor Richard Ralph Feudale has just published a book on the Barnes, titled Barnes Rune 2012 (Decoding the Mysteries of Pennsylvania’s Barnes Foundation, A Special American Place).  From the author: “The Barnes is a beautiful cipher, written in images. Pennsylvania’s politicians are helping to destroy something that they haven’t even thought about in a deep and circumspect manner.” Purchase your own copy by follow this link.  It is also being sold on Amazon.

Notes on an Urban Kill-Floor

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko will release a book of poetry this spring, Notes on an Urban Kill-Floor.  Support the project by pledging online at Kickstarter, and listen to a poem from the book on YouTube.  Author Remica L. Bingham writes of Kosoko’s work, “Magic, in its various forms, makes its way onto each page.  He is a seer and protector of memory amidst a generation obsessed with finding new ways to sever distance.”

Purdom’s Science Fiction

Tom Purdom‘s latest science fiction story can be found in the April-May issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, now on sale.  “A Response from EST17” is an interstellar first contact story featuring a particularly ingenious way to teach nosey species they shouldn’t send probes to the stars.

In more recent news, Purdom’s novelette Golva’s Ascent is the cover story in the March issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, which goes on sale late in January.  The April-May issue of Asimov’s will include his short story “Bonding with Morry”, a jaundiced response to sentimental stories about robots who develop human feelings.