Jeanne Koré Salvato

i wait, therefore I am

i wait, therefore I am

What is waiting, anyway? Actually, we all know how to do that well, right?  But let’s see what a couple of artists have to say. ROCHESTER FRINGEAt the Rochester Fringe Festival, which is a celebration of drama, music and dance, I had the opportunity to purchase a...
foreign banking

foreign banking

n a word, don’t do it!  I would like to take you on an imaginary, virtual trip to two different banks to change your home address. COMPARE AND CONTRASTFirst, let’s go to Capital One.  On their website, you click on the little person at the top right of the...
a Godot moment

a Godot moment

verybody is enamored of the ending of Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, where the two main characters say, basically, it’s time to move on, and then they don’t go anywhere.  They’re stuck, stopped (or is it faithful to Godot?). What if we thought about the play a...
les numéros

les numéros

he other day I looked at the expiration date for some tofu.  11/7/ 22, I read.  July 11?  What kind of a fool does that Food Coop take me for?  This is September!  Oh, okay, je me calme.  I calmed down. It’s really November 7. Only in America! NUMBERSNumbers in French...
Build Your House Around My Body

Build Your House Around My Body

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICEThis novel by Violet Kupersmith is the fifth in the series of seven debut novels selected last year by Brooklyn’s Center for Literary Fiction, which later awarded one of the seven a prize.  We are putting forward an alternative, The People’s...