“I wished so hard my father would die, but he just wouldn’t.”
–From Harold Brodkey’s “The State of Grace” in First Love and Other Sorrows
Posts Tagged ‘Harold Brodkey’
Guest Post, by Luca Dipierro: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged “The State of Grace”, First Love and Other Sorrows, Harold Brodkey on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Drawn and Quartered: On Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly, Part One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel, Diane DeSanders, Janet Kauffman, Pamela Schirmeister, Patty Marx, Peter Christopher, Robert Jones, Ansie Baird, Dan Duffy, J.S. Marcus, Jack Gilbert, James Laughlin, John Allman, Matthew Levine, William Freedman, Chris Spain, Darrell Spencer, Don Nace, E.J. Cullen, Gordon Lish, Harold Brodkey, Harvey Shapiro, Jane Smiley, Kaye Gibbons, Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, The Quarterly, Tom Rayfiel, Tom Spanbauer, Yannick Murphy on October 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of the first issue of Gordon Lish’s legendary literary journal The Quarterly. Here I’ll examine stories by Amy Hempel, Tom Spanbauer, Matthew Levine, Chris Spain, Pamela Schirmeister, Yannick Murphy, J.S. Marcus, Darrell Spencer, Kaye Gibbons, Peter Christopher, Janet Kauffman, and Tom Rayfiel; a novella by Jane Smiley; poems by Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, John Allman, William Freedman, Jack Gilbert, Ansie Baird, Diane DeSanders, and Harvey Shapiro; and letters by Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Harold Brodkey, James Laughlin, Amy Hempel, Patty Marx, Robert Jones, E.J. Cullen, and Dan Duffy; and drawings by Don Nace. I hope to eventually cover every single issue of this incredible journal.
