[This post is something of a response to John’s recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby,…
Where Do Our Desires Come From? (Want as Tradition)
I’ve been thinking about comments that darby and Mike Meginnis made on Amber’s recent post “I Don’t Like Crap Games.”…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
James Robison on Stevens
1. To all readers of Stevens who have not already encountered Helen Vendler’s Words Chosen Out Of Desire and On Extended Wings:…
Guest Post, by Scott Garson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“Patterns of silver light and so forth.” —”City Life,” Donald Barthelme, from City Life
Guest Post, by Brian Kiteley: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
From Donald Barthelme’s story “Terminus”: “Naked, she twists in his arms to listen to a sound outside the door, a…
Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile
This will be something of a long and meandering trip, only to wind up back where we started. But I…
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, #3: Tracy Daugherty’s Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
#1 | #2 | #4 MY FOUR FAVORITE NEW BOOKS OF 2009, CONT’D #3. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald…