February 11, 2019
Literary Nightmares
Dropbox limit has been reached Laptop battery dies Internet goes down House somehow already clean so nothing to distract from writing People who ask how’s the novel coming along People […]
August 22, 2013
Brief Guide to the Backs of Poetry Books
Here’s what you need to interpret the mysterious coded language on the backs of poetry books. 1. Watch out for eclecticism and egalitarianism promised through the high-culture/pop-culture mashup. In the […]
August 31, 2012
Forms of Enthusiasm: On Poetry Criticism, Book Reviews, and (yes, again) Blurbs
You may have heard something over the last week or two about William Giraldi’s review of two Alix Ohlin books in The New York Times. It’s a wildly negative review […]
July 21, 2012
from A Field Guide to North American Blurbs
As I’m preparing two blurbs this weekend, I’m looking at a lot of blurbs and thinking about the genre. Maybe there are some observations to be made about the varieties […]