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Next Line, Please: “For Years You’ve Kept Me Hanging” [by Virginia Valenzuela]
When Lionel Trilling was 23 years old, he wrote to a friend, “There are two ways, I have discovered, of wearing despair. One is over all your clothes, a great vestment hanging well over…
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Views on dance: “Violin Phase” in Lafayette Anticipations’ new space [by Tracy Danison]
the arms are the motor of a body that joins the movement of liberty, becoming: jump, turn, again and again “Violin Phase” (1981) is the first of the four 15-minute segments of Fase,…
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The great Lee Wiley (Oct 9, 1908-Dec, 11, 1975) sings “Manhattan”
Was there ever a better recording of Rodgers & Hart's "Manhattan" than that of Lee Wiley?
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from “Autumn Leaves” [by David Lehman]
Autumn was here Then she left Now she’s back From summer to winter without an interval for autumn is like going from glory to disgrace like a sinner caught in the confessional or from…
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Take a Bow, Ern Malley [by David Lehman]
The greatest literary hoax of the twentieth century was concocted by a couple of Australian soldiers at their desks in the offices of the Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, land headquarters of the Australian army,…
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Meet the Press: Augury Books-An Interview with Kate Angus
Dante Di Stefano: How did Augury Books come into being? Kate Angus: I started Augury Books in 2010 with Christine Kanownik, who I’d met in The New School’s MFA program. I’d been Meghan O’Rourke’s…
