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Talking Pictures: “The Counterfeit Traitor” with William Holden [by David Lehman]
Ed. note: For The American Scholar, I write a monthly column under the general title of "talking pictures" about movies worth seeing and talking about. Here are the opening paragraphs of my latest effort.…
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Meet the Press: Plan B Press and Alan King’s Crooked Smiling Light
Dante Di Stefano: The poems in Crooked Smiling Light meditate on complicated family relationships. What are the advantages and the challenges of foregrounding the domestic and the autobiographical in your writing? Alan King: The…
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“Auguries” [by Sharon Mesmer]
Need answers to life's persistent questions? Then why not try . . . Ailuromancy — divination by the behavior of catsAlectryomancy — divination by chickenAmnimancy — divination by the membraneous sac of a newbornBibliomancy/Rhapsodomancy…
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Revisiting “D.A.R.Y.L.” [by Joe Lehman]
1985’s D.A.R.Y.L., directed by Simon Wincer (“Lonesome Dove” of TV) and starring past child actor Barrett Oliver (The Never Ending Story) is a film that could easily be called a Pinocchio story. That is…
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An Interview with Amy Gerstler [by Aspen Matis]
Amy Gerstler is a critically acclaimed writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Paris Review and The Best American Poetry. Her 1990 book Bitter…
