Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…
Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016!
Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
Paula Bomer’s Recent Reading at Brown University
Here’s the introduction I delivered before Paula Bomer’s reading at Brown University’s Literary Arts Department’s Demitasse on February 21, 2013:…
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…
Paula Bomer’s “Literary Pillars”
1-The Collected Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor 2-Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor 3-Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor 4-War…
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…
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter At The Gallows
I had the great pleasure to read Mullany’s book of poems published by Publishing Genius Press, as well as discuss…
Travels with My Aunt: A Look at Satire and Outsiderness
I’m in the Dominican Republic, sitting on the porch of the cabin we’ve owned for six years now. We dream…
Poetry vs. Pop Culture (or, Does Anyone Dance to John Berryman?)
I was going to post this as a comment on Michael’s wonderful post from yesterday, but then it got too…