The Ombudsman of the Washington Post has this to say about “innovation”: “I’m wondering, and readers are too, whether…
A Year of Reading
I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…
Dalkey Archive Press
Until I make my pilgrimage to Champaign, this realtor-walkthrough video of Dalkey Archive’s warehouse (squired by founder John O’Brien,…
That Entrepreneurial Spirit
[Video shamelessly stolen from Shane Jones’s Facebook feed] Of course sometimes the hippie with his feet up on the desk…
Acquiring the Superfluous
[Alexander Theroux’s essay “Theroux Metaphrastes” was published as an appendix to David R. Godine’s 1975 edition of Theroux’s 1972 novel,…
Pop-up Books: An Homage
Last week, as I was picking up some films from the library of my alma mater, the University of New…
THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part I
A dual post by contributors John Domini and Amber Sparks on The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth. JOHN: Wanting to…
Stanley Elkin, Ghosting Through Boston, Beautifully
A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
His Light Materials: Puig, Film, and “Gruesome Tangos”
I hope some of you are reading and digging Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. In my first post, I…
Plunging Puigward: Welcome to La Plata, Mosca
If you’ve been keeping up (or, like me, struggling to keep up) with the Big Other Book Club thus far,…