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Place your bets…. (by Mitch Sisskind)
I believe there is an essay by Alan Tate in which Dostoyevsky’s gambling is described as an attempt to at last go one-on-one with society, and perhaps even the cosmos — to cut through…
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Friday: we got through another week [by Vincent Katz]
Somehow, my Friday post got swallowed, so here’s Friday and Saturday in one fell swoop. Thursday night we went to see the Wooster Group’s open rehearsal of La Didone at St. Ann’s Playhouse under…
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Ken Tucker on Craig Ferguson
Ken Tucker was a guest this week on Craig Ferguson’s late night show. Catch all the action here.
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Billy Collins: Cartoons and Poetry
". . .the truth is that influence enters us from all sides. It is the chlorine in the flood of experience that spills continuously into the conscious mind. A short-story writer may have been…
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Just got off the phone with. . .
Just got off the phone with Donald Hall, who is "back to writing" after a depressing hiatus lasting two and a half years. He writes every morning, mainly "going over poems" begun months ago.…
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Happy birthday, Donald Hall
Donald Hall pictured here with his wife, the late Jane Kenyon Donald Hall was born on this day in 1928. As guest editor of The Best American Poetry 1989 — the second volume in…
