While Ashbery Dies, I Read Sandburg
The week John Ashberry dies, I read Carl Sandburg’s Wind Song. Ashbery is, for the time being, celebrated. Sandburg, once…
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Gods and Gastropods
It is 1968. I am eleven years old. In the last few months, I have begun reorganizing my late childhood,…
Anaïs Nin & Husband
On her Facebook feed, R.Y. just posted a link to a new collection of correspondence between Henry Miller and Anaïs…
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…
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….
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 