Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
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…
Rikki Ducornet’s “Literary Pillars”
(I attempted to list the very special books that were the potencies behind my thinking as a child and young…
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…
Thinking About Poets Writing Fiction
I finished reading Michael Hulse’s new translation of Rilke’s anguished novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge this past Valentine’s…
&Now Conference: A Conference of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts
I went to the &Now Conference held in Buffalo, New York, October 14-17, and enjoyed it on a number of…