Apparently, I won. I’m not sure I believe this, but … where is that champagne.
Poetry Time: Tonight in Queens @ 8PM!
Poetry Time, a “reading series held at Space Space in Ridgewood, Queens,” will be holding an event tonight featuring readings…
Life and silence
As I write this, I am half way through a review. I have been half way through the review for…
An Alternate Reading of “Pride,” by Alice Munro
I am one of the many who think that Alice Munro deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature, so I am…
Life is Unjust.
Several days after my 29th birthday, I find that I am doing an unreasonable amount of pouting. I am pouting…
Read Brian Carr! Screw with Google! Win a Book! Dark Sky!
Things! Stuff! Words! These actually aren’t just random crazy words I’m using to fill space on a web page, believe…
Voices for Manuel Puig: a very, very, very late response to March’s reading
(Note: Sorry for the late response! Wasn’t around much in March.) “Embroidery doesn’t seem tiring, but then your back begins…
Beginning to Dig into Gass’s The Tunnel (1 of 2)
Gass on history: “What counts for me…is what happens to human consciousness…what was lost when you piled up bodies, what…
Money Money Money!; or, That Great Unthinking Life of the Writer (Part 2)
When we left off last week, we were stuck in a conceptual trap. Patronage systems have dried up or gone on…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: “The Condominium”
“The Condominium,” the third and final novella in Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures, features another rather garrulous “hero,” this time…