May 2021 – BIG OTHER

The Weight of Lost Objects, by Dawn Raffel

The bracelet—a double, really, made of two gold strands—was a college graduation gift from my elegant great-aunt. This was…

Happy birthday, John Barth! 91, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “Self-knowledge is always bad news.”…

Happy birthday, Miles Davis! Here are some quotes from the musician: “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not…

A Review of Choi Seungja’s Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me (Action Books) By Tom DeBeauchamp Sorrow, like a…

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan! 80, today! Lucky to have seen this trickster and consummate artist perform live many times…

Happy Arrival Day, Sun Ra! Here are some quotes from the composer and musician: “I think of myself…

Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet: “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.”…

Happy birthday, Joseph Beuys! Here are some quotes from the artist. “I think art is the only political…

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Make a thing that never…

“More bird, Goodman Page?” asked the stout Master Buxton as he sawed a leg from a goose sitting, solemn…