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From the KGB Files . . .
Douglas A. Martin and Lee Upton read at KGB last night. The audience begged for an encore, and they got it. Here are some highlights: Douglas A. Martin is the author most recently of…
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Prayer to Saint Patrick (Terence Patrick Winch)
When I was a boy growing up in an Irish immigrant household in the Bronx, March 17th was second only to December 25th in its potent mix of religion, magic, and celebration. We'd wait…
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” -Shelley [by Amy Lawless]
If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? Shelly wrote hundreds of thousands of years ago that the poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.…
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Kurosawa Comes Back!
Faithful readers know that a retrospective of thirty Kurosawa movies was recently shown at the Film Forum in New York City's Houston Street, and we had the good fortune to get a running commentary,…
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An Example of Sartre’s Concept of ‘Bad Faith’; or, Why Simone de Beauvoir Had To Go To Chicago To Discover Multiple Orgasms With Nelson Algren [by Jim Cummins]
This is a passage from Part II, "Patterns of Bad Faith," from Chapter Two, "Bad Faith," in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness (Editions Gallimard, 1943; English translation, The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1956). "Take the…
