September 19, 2007
Searchers for the Fecund Minimum
This post is the work of current Stegner Fellow Andrew Grace.–TM I want to write about the state of the American short poem. I hesitate to use the term “minimalism,” […]
September 18, 2007
Matthea Harvey, Robot Children, and the Future of Terror
After hearing Matthea Harvey read in the jubilat/Jones Library reading series from her soon-to-be released new book, Modern Life, due in October from Graywolf, it is safe to say you […]
September 17, 2007
D. Nurkse’s “Letter from Solange”
I had the lucky fortune of hearing D. Nurkse read this weekend with Matthea Harvey. (Both teach together at Sarah Lawrence College, and were reading as part of the jubilat/Jones […]
September 16, 2007
Deborah Digges and the Force of Elegy
I’ve been trying for a few years now to understand elegy. This is not to speak of not knowing what the definition of elegy is or not knowing where to […]
September 16, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Songs from Literature
I’ve been caught up all day listening to songs inspired by literature. As a kid growing up in Hawaii, I remember many afternoons listening to a Loggins and Messina song […]
September 14, 2007
Writer’s Lives
Sergei’s last post prompted this quick one–the reader’s reports from the Knopf archives he references show such an intimate glimpse into the whole project of publication. Also, a humanizing glimpse. […]
September 12, 2007
New Voices, New Eyes
If you haven’t read it yet, check out David Oshinsky’s wonderful essay in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review on the readers’ reports to be found in the Knopf archive […]
September 12, 2007
Per Limericks
To something else entirely–Books, Inq. has a link to an article on the history, function, and sheer bliss of the limerick and limerick contest. One of my favorites from the […]
September 11, 2007
On September 11th
Six years later, and the piece of writing that best asserts itself in the still-roiling wake of the Trade Center tragedies was composed almost sixty years earlier, not long after […]
September 10, 2007
Short Takes
“That book coverage is disappearing is not news. What is news is the current pace of the erosion in coverage, as well as the fear that an unbearable cultural threshold […]
September 9, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Classics, anyone?
This past summer at the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, all of the high school students were oohing and ahhing over favorite books list, especially Lolita, listing it as their […]
September 7, 2007
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
I nearly posted before heading off to dinner, but I’ve come back to discover that Madeleine L’Engle died in Connecticut yesterday at the age of 88. This woman deserves more […]