[Matthew Salesses was kind enough to expand just a bit on his earlier thoughts about ordering his new book,…
bluets #2
Across from me on the train was a man who was returning to the same city I was, and who…
Paula Bomer’s Recent Reading at Brown University
Here’s the introduction I delivered before Paula Bomer’s reading at Brown University’s Literary Arts Department’s Demitasse on February 21, 2013:…
Icons
I’m not a great cinema-goer, but in the last few weeks I’ve been twice. Both times I saw a film…
Coming: The Sounds of Sam Lipsyte in The Fun Parts
THE SOUNDS OF SAM LIPSYTE In the next few weeks we will hear that Sam Lipsyte’s The Fun Parts (Farrar,…
The more it stays the same
The more literary and cultural history I read, the more I find exactly the same patterns recurring. One such pattern…
bluets #1
While I was walking yesterday, on a busy downtown sidewalk, in a city I wasn’t familiar with, I saw the…
West Wing, 1865
On 31 January 2013 I went to see Lincoln, exactly 148 years after the events depicted in the climax of…