In our May offering, writer Tom Matlack sits down with me to discuss The Good Men Project, the ladies of Singing In The Abbey share their album Wake Up, Sardis!, famed photographer Noah Kalina displays two galleries; West (Of Here), and Internet/Sex, author Nora Bonner writes an operatic elegy, poet Kevin Simmonds composes the final songs of Versace’s murderer in Unearthing House, Scott Hightower reviews Deborah Bogen’s latest...

Tom Matlack There’s a gash under my left eye, my right thumb throbs like a son-of-a-bitch, and I keep seeing stars. My whole body hurts. I have a red beard—if you can call it that—after a week of uneven growth. On the plane ride home from Florida to Boston, people look at me like I’m some kind of pirate and wonder where the patch is for my battered eye. After all, at 45, I’m too old for this. I’m thinking back to my college...

Author Tom Matlack discusses the passion and purpose behind his Good Men Project.