George Romero fans take notice!
Famous writers’ favorite snacks. (Did canned meat–straight from the tin–and apples really help fuel Fitzgerald?)
Robert Pinsky on the horrors of bad book reviews.
Why novelists might reconsider moonlighting as critics.
An interview with poet Matthew Zapruder. “I wish for contemporary American poetry that the poets keep the reader more in mind: that poets continue to find various and authentic ways of thinking about who might read their poems and why.”
When readers get it wrong. (or, “The Road Not Taken” isn’t what you think it is.)
When editors get it wrong. (or, Take heart in the failures of the greats.)
When big media companies get it wrong. “The ideas are there; the talent is there; the readers are there. But when the three come together, inevitably someone else can figure out a way to use the technology for a different end.”