A quick post before I shut down for a few days much needed break. Throughout the 19th century science was…
The big story
I am currently reading A Terrible Beauty by Peter Watson. Not a great book by any means, it is superficial…
Emma Straub: On Ritual
Emma Straub: On Ritual “I write lying down. Not reclining all the way, but with my back supported behind me,…
Rain, I don’t mind.
After seeing today’s cloudburst in New York City tear down a huge tree, snap it into splinters, this definition of…
Who Was Mary Shelley?
Funny, Lorine Niedecker’s great poem omits an important detail. From the Wikipedia: Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August…
Amy Hempel’s ‘Offertory’
I’ve read about half of Hempel’s collected stories but none seem so seminal as this one. It’s one of her…
A Tale of 3 Cloud Atlases, Part 1
Recently I read The Paris Review interview with David Mitchell (read an excerpt HERE), found it so intriguing that I…
Jane Unrue’s ‘Life of a Star’
Reading Jane Unrue’s novel Life of a Star (Burning Deck Press) is similar to the experience of entering a quiet…
Barbara Loden & Yoko Ono (& John Lennon & Mike Douglas)
Discussing Barbara Loden’s masterpiece Wanda (1970): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54uwg_john-lennon-yoko-ono-barbara-loden_shortfilms This 15-minute discussion features a clip from the film, plus a performance by…
Between Blog and Book: Mairéad Byrne’s The Best of (What’s Left Of) Heaven
Publishing Genius, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9820813-5-8 208 pages A kind of Lydia Davis of the poetry world, Mairéad Byrne is an…