READING THE CANTOS I am not the only person in the United States reading The Cantos. I know because the…
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…
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,…
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…
Barzakh
The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…
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,…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…