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Reading David Foster Wallace Without a Net [by Eleanor Goodman]
Two years ago next month, the writer, philosopher, and literary genius David Foster Wallace hanged himself in his backyard. I didn’t know DFW, and initially I disliked his work. True, I took some pride…
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Middle Memory, A Day at the Beach [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Sometimes I go out sometimes I stay in. Out, I sometimes take a lot of pics. This one reminds me that last summer I was taking lots of shots of bunches of…
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What Appears To Be Really Is [by Eleanor Goodman]
There is a discrete point in life when you suddenly realize your parents look frail, you have wrinkles starting to spider out from the corners of your eyes, and practically everyone you know is…
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The Best American Poetry 2010 – Behind the Scene: David Lehman Interviews Matthew Yeager
Matthew Yeager is one of my favorite up and coming poets, completely original and surprising, so I was delighted that he agreed to be interviewed by David Lehman about "from A Jar of Balloons…
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Apocalypse Now…Or a Little Later? [by Eleanor Goodman]
Am I unusual in feeling that there’s something increasingly schizophrenic about our public life? According to the New York Times, BP’s apocalyptic oil spill continues to kill giant sea turtles by the boatload and…
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A Poet of the World (by Eleanor Goodman)
Jared Smith is a poet I have admired for many years. I met him once by chance, on a day in July so humid that even the trees looked resentful, and we had a…
