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WORKING SPACE: READING / NOT READING [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
This is the kind of reader I’d like to be: In the spring, as a way to keep “meeting” during lockdown, my friend Cammy and I would talk twice a week about writing. Because…
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Beethoven’s Choice [by Lera Auerbach]
The truth is that I do not know how I feel about Beethoven. There seem to be two separate things – one is Beethoven, the other one is our admiration for Beethoven. The second…
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The Godfather of Trolling, or Who Was Lucian? [by Michael Fontaine}
One hundred years ago, in April 2020, we were lucky to host Michael Fontaine as our guest author, just as his timely translation of Vincent Obsopoeus's How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the…
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“From a Rome Book” [by Clark Coolidge]
The man walked down gradually under the handholds.The time it takes to spy the letters and mark them.In this whiteness of lights the words seem toinch into each board of page. Either that or…
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WORKING SPACE: BALANCE [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
A poem, a painting, a poem. Dickinson, Vermeer, Stevens. Here's Emily Dickinson's poem, "There's a certain Slant of light" (#258 in the Johnson edition, #320 in the Franklin edition): There's a certain Slant…
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WORKING SPACE: GET CLOSER [by Jennifer Clarvoe]
It's James Thurber's birthday today. In his quasi-fairy tale, The Thirteen Clocks, time is frozen; the warm hand of Saralinda can do nothing to set the clocks ticking again. I've always loved its strange…
