Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…
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…
William Walsh’s “Literary Pillars”
After examining three bookshelf walls in our home—one in the living room and two in the basement (one on the…
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…
Best of 2010, Part 5
This post features lists by four excellent writers: Chris Heavener, Lance Olsen, Bradley Sands, and William Walsh. And when you…
Three poems: Two after “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, One on Pilgrimage
Three wonderful writers sent in poems–two after one of Stevens’s most popular and most influential poems, “Thirteen Ways of Looking…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a…
Two Texts for Bloomsday, by William Walsh
Below are two pieces derived from James Joyce’s collected letters. The first one plays on a comment from Ezra Pound…
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…