summer 2008

To the Dogs
or Whoever

Maybe other duos would have folded

by now, but your intractable editors

(peaches & cream) are looking for the

kind of run that Sonny & Cher, Wendy

& Lisa, Wallace & Grommet, and Iron

and Wine (wait a minute, that’s one guy, right?) all put together. In other words, we have not given into the lazy temptations of summer. We have not gone on vacation. We don’t know the meaning of leisure time. Hell, we didn’t even go on our annual Irish bender in June. No, we stayed home and read. We talked to Richard Thompson. We slept in the subway. Stood in the pouring rain. All for you, dear readers. The result? The Summer 2008 issue of shaking like a mountain featuring numerous poets and the fiction of Dan Solomon.
We welcome back Providence raconteur and bon vivant Scott Duhamel (of the Providence Monthly) with his musings on the life and times of Bo Diddley, and because Duhamel inspired us (indirectly) in the conception of the R. Meltzer Challenge, his Bo obit rightfully supplants all comers and coveters to that spot. Besides we didn’t read anything we liked enough to put there.

Dear writers, try harder!

Finally, keep those virtual cards and letters coming. We’ll even post the best bits. Promise.

peaches & cream