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 […]
August 23, 2012
Mix Tape: Literary Crimes
Andrew Scott responds to the “ladder-climbing” and “posturing” behind nasty reviews and other writer-on-writer crimes. When an English professor wrote to Flannery O’Connor and asked her to explain one of […]
August 22, 2011
Short Takes: Between Art and Work
Dean Rader: “Levine is a great choice for Poet Laureate, especially now. No living American poet has written more probingly or more beautifully about work than Levine. But, by no […]
May 12, 2010
Cold Comments
I should be reading The Lacuna right now. I have book club in three days and I haven’t read a single one of the 500+ pages yet. In my defense, […]