December 9, 2016
A Fable
It is the last day of life on earth, but the United States populace is forbidden to acknowledge the fact. Anyone caught without a smile on their face is subject […]
August 12, 2012
Vidal, Bradbury, and misanthropic virtue
That people die, authors included, is no strange fact—but it is made strange by the deaths of authors so large they seem immovable, pillars of the craft exempt from time […]
August 8, 2012
An inheritance reassembled: G.C. Waldrep on finding and keeping
G.C. Waldrep believes in paying attention, and in Disclamor, he pays a very specific kind of attention: to the psychological ambiance of place. More than just “place” in general, the […]
August 2, 2012
Topographed: a new approach to poetic geography
Over the past few months, I’ve traveled from Hayward, California to Washington, D.C., then from D.C. to Manassas and Remington in Virginia, then to backwoods West Virginia—Hinton, Beckley, and the […]