I spent several hours with Mr. Foley in February, listening to his wandering tales from the old Bowery days, and wrote an article about his move to a new apartment, one with a roommate and four walls and a door (see the accompanying slide show at nytimes.com/cityroom).
Wandering through our tale like a thief in the night and with the swagger of a true Rock and Roll Phantomas".
This summary — and I have only sketched the outlines of a wandering, episodic story — makes "Keep the Lights On" sound much more schematic, more like a morality tale, than it really is.
Homecoming As in a classic tale, a wandering minstrel returns to be crowned king of the place of his birth.
In his acknowledgments, Mr. Adams credited Mr. Lockley's book for his own description of bunny behavior in his tale of wandering rabbits.
My interest has been refreshed by reading The Narrow Boat, LTC Rolt's classic tale of wandering the canals of England in the months before the second world war.
But Brooklyn doesn't need or want an old cowhand wandering around telling tall tales and recommending wrong wines.
TOM WAITS "Bad as Me" is Tom Waits's first full album of new material in seven years, a collection of bluesy roadhouse stomps and bleary morning-after ruminations, tales of wandering and war and scratchy but sincere love songs.
Most significant was the introduction of original productions, including "The Sword in the Stone" and the witty and raucous "Three Little Pigs," which starred an Elvis-like Big Bad Wolf, a healthy dose of vaudeville, and assorted characters wandering in from other tales.
In his "Sandman" series of graphic novels, Neil Gaiman has created a landscape as detailed and nuanced as the collective myths of ancient Greece, or the tales of wandering knights recounted by Chaucer.
