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LOVE NEVER DIES by Michael Lally
LOVE NEVER DIES Lots of shit diesLove doesn’t Parts of me areAlready dead But love isn’t…My appendix Dead and buriedMy prostate and A disc from my backDead and gone too And parts of my…
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“True Detective”: Making eloquent TV with hardboiled monologues [by Ken Tucker]
I’d pretty much had it with serial-killer narratives – on TV, in movies, in pop novels. I was tired of the dead-helpless-women trope that recurs in too many of these plots, weary of the…
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Mr. Bernanke: Could we have avoided Lehman?
Question: Could we have avoided Lehman? Departing Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke: Even with Lehman. . .[we almost didn't get the TARP]. One congressman told me he had heard from his constituency. 50%…
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Hump Day Highlights
This week we're highlighting activities and accomplishments of friends and former guest bloggers: Eduardo Corral (Slow Lightning,Yale University Press) has embarked on an ambitious reading tour. Jessica Piazza's poems appear in Mezzo Cammin, an…
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Congratulations to the Nominees for National Book Critics Circle Awards
This year's nominees for a National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry are Frank Bidart's "Metaphysical Dog," Lucie Brock-Broido's "Stay, Illusion," Denise Duhamel's "Blowout," Bob Hicok's "Elegy Owed" and Carmen Gimenez Smith's "Milk and Filth." Congratulations to all. We're…
