May 18, 2026 More than five decades have now passed between Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's mid-1970s performances in the small New York town of Geneva, as captured by photographer James Fuller, and their most recent performance in New York City this past Saturday night, photographed for Letters To You by Mark Krajnak. Back then in Geneva, Bruce and his band were playing to no more than 1400 ticket-buyers per show. Last Saturday night, they performed to yet another so

Geneva, NY - December 7, 1974 - photo by James Fuller (used with permission) May 12, 2026 With Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's return to New York this week, there's no better time to check out James Fuller's beautiful, high-quality book of photos, Spirit in the Light: Photographing Springsteen 1973-75. Three of the four concerts depicted in the book, captured in glorious black-and-white by Fuller as a young college student with a budding interest in photography, took

May 10, 2026 Just in time for Mother's Day 2026, our friend and Letters To You contributor Doug Bradley has published his latest book, All the Books She Never Wrote. It's a unique memoir about the special time that Doug got to spend with his mother, Lucy Bradley, in her final days. A few weeks after her ninety-ninth birthday, Lucy decided she was ready to die. After a series of health setbacks, she stopped eating, certain the end would come quickly. Instead, her extended good

photo by Rob DeMartin - (Chicago, IL; April 29, 2026) - used with permission May 4, 2026 Happy-birthday wishes go out today to Sister Soozie Tyrell, fiddler extraordinaire and - as an essential member of the current Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour - now freedom fighter, too. The late, great Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "First fight. Then fiddle." ends as follows: "...Rise bloody, maybe not too late For having first to civilize a space Wherein to play your violin with grace."