The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has a 43-minute interview with Guy Davenport…
Guest Post by Paul Skinner: “As Easy as Pie – Sometimes”
‘Basil returned with the two pies. He was wearing the expression of a man who has laid hands on a…
The Completed Eyes Wide Shut?
When Stanley Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, there was still a little over four months until Eyes Wide Shut’s…
To Live To Read To Live
TO LIVE TO READ TO LIVE Gimmickry attached to the world of belles-lettres has me chagrined: not the book itself,…
Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2018!
Like every year, there’s much to dread about 2018, and to fight against, but, fortunately there’s much to look forward…
My Year in Reading, 2017
I read two hundred books this year. Crazy, I know. “Suffering” from segmented sleep certainly “helps,” as does “suffering” from…
Today’s Library Haul
Took out a mountain of books from the library this afternoon, in anticipation of National Translation Month.
On Robert Lopez’s All Back Full
Robert Lopez’s darkly comical collections and novels are full of bizarre, dissolute isolatos moving in and out of desultory relationships,…