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Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Answers
Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of Harlot. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? David Lehman: Best American Secretary of Poetry, duh! 2. If you could send Obama…
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Alex Stein’s Answers
Alex Stein is the author of Weird Emptiness: Essays and Aphorisms. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? A very small one, not subject to claustrophobia, crouching. 2. If…
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Christopher Davis’s Answers
Christopher Davis is the author of The Patriot. 1. What poet should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? John Ashbery as Secretary of the Imagination 2. If you could send Obama one…
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Charlotte Innes’ Answers
Charlotte Innes is the author of “Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles” to be published by Finishing Line Press in May 2009. 1. What poet(s) should be in Obama’s cabinet, and in what role? Robert…
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Ebenezer Scrooge and the Movies (by Laura Orem)
In last Sunday's New York Times Book Review, there is a review by Kathryn Harrison of a new book by Les Standiford called The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" …
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Reading & Writing & [by Moira Egan]
[after the rain] I just love Harvey Hix's "20 questions" idea for guest bloggery this week. It's so interesting to see the diversity of responses–and I'm looking forward to more of HLH's musings on…
