February 5, 2016
The Sultan of Nonsense
Last week, on this blog, I asked a question that I didn’t try to answer: “Where is the great nonsense of our time?” Might it be found in the lines […]
January 30, 2016
Clowns and Music
In the spring of 2014, a friend sent me an article that had appeared a few weeks earlier in Grantland. The article concerned a clown—“a really sad clown, sadder than […]
November 25, 2015
Twelve Things
What follows are twelve things I’ve read or reread lately (and which may, on some level, speak to one another), and for which I’m grateful: Dean Young: Some things, like […]
April 8, 2015
Trophies
In The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry, Rick Barot, one of the book’s contributors, offers this bit of testimony about his development as a writer: For years, what I cared about […]