I embarked on a list-led reading quest over a decade ago—not with Gass’s list, but with Borges’s (“A Personal Library”)—but…
Matt Bell’s “Literary Pillars”
I started this list a month ago, and over the course of an afternoon I got to forty-nine without too…
Gary Amdahl’s “Literary Pillars”
A great many grand and beloved books are missing from this list; I thought I’d try to draw up something…
A Review of The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin
The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin encouraged me to pick up E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, a book…
“Poetries of Resistance,” by Drew Krewer
I was recently asked to write a poetics statement for an anthology in which my work is being published. In…
Forward-Thinking Dzanc Books Once Again Outthinks the So-Called Majors
Robert Coover is one of the most important writers (among the many living, seemingly living, or otherwise writers), his work…
New Books Roundup #1
Alternately bizarre, poignant, and unsettlingly funny, William Walsh’s Ampersand, Mass.—the titular town situated somewhere between Winesburg, Ohio and Yoknapatawpha County—brings…
Predict The Unexpectable: Ririe-Woordbury Dance Company Presents Prism
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in a run which lasted from December 8th through 10th, presented Prism, a showcase of the choreography…
Best of 2011, Part 3
Euphorbia Rhizophora: A Harvested Ginger Rhizome I love reading lists, especially lists from smart people who are paying attention and…