Email Author Alexis Soloski

2009 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• TEA FOR TWO

  published January 14, 2009

  Sappho, that lusty Greek, wrote about how “Eros once again, limb-loosener, whirls me/sweetbitter, impossible to fight off.” Twenty-seven... More >>

• MONEY TROUBLE

  published January 14, 2009

  The lead character of Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined did not invest with Bernie Madoff, nor did she own considerable shares in American... More >>

• This Year's Under the Radar Festival Gets the Solo Bug

  published January 7, 2009

  Mark Russell would not achieve great success in a one-man show—he's far too self-effacing to relish a lone turn in the spotlight. But as... More >>

• FAMILY AFFAIR

  published January 7, 2009

  After attending the premiere of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in 1899, Count Leo Tolstoy, reportedly shouted, "Where is the drama? What does it... More >>

• COLLISION COURSE

  published January 7, 2009

  Lately, with news of plant closures, putative collapse, and promise bailout, the auto industry's seemed unusually dramatic. And in Dan LeFranc's... More >>

• WOOLF PACK

  published January 7, 2009

  "Humor," wrote Virginia Woolf, "is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." Yet Woolf wasn't particularly funny even in her native... More >>