Harryette Mullen’s Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
Harryette Mullen, a poet and UCLA English professor, does a lot of walking from her home in what I’m guessing…
Daybook
Used Books and the Chain of Transmission.
Usually, it’s nothing more than an old receipt, used as a bookmark and left between pages after the book left…
Herbert Kohl, Teaching the “Unteachable.”
I knew of Herbert Kohl from his 1995 book Should We Burn Babar? I’d bought it in the mid-90s, solely because…
Robert Charles Wilson, Blind Lake
I keep going back to science fiction hoping that I’ll find another Le Guin or Butler or Delaney or Bradbury,…
An Hour at Skylight Books.
It has never been easy or instant to find the work of small publishers. Press runs are tiny, distribution is…
Robert Crosson, Daybooks (1983-1986) and thieving in Greece and Israel.
Read Robert Crosson’s Daybook, from Otis’s College’s Seismicity Press. Never heard of Crosson, which is reason enough to read the book….
John Palfrey, Biblio Tech
A former librarian at Harvard Law School under Dean Elena Kagan, John Palfrey was what librarians call a “feral” –…
W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Reading William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair was, let it be said, a complete pain in the ass. I have never loved longer…
Left Write & Centaur 