I was recently asked to play a game of “Truth or Truth,” an asinine variant of an already asinine game,…
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor…
“Fifty Literary Pillars or a Few Planks,” by Christine Schutt
The books listed come in order of memory and recent courses taught at high school and college levels; in both…
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 41 / 41, SLEEPINGFISH 8
Click through to read the full review of SLEEPINGFISH, the forty-first (and final installment) in this full-press review of Calamari…
Bite of Schutt
Last Thursday I saw Christine Schutt read her story ‘The Blood Jet’ at the Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan. I’ve…
Loving Lowell
Having just finished reading Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s second book of poetry, a collection consisting mainly of revisions of…
Over Forty Writers Over Forty to Watch
Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list…
Reading Out Loud/Aloud/Loudly
Matt Bell, writing a bit about his drafting process HERE, brought up that he reads out loud a lot when…