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On Schubert’s Birthday
On Schubert's Birthday Even the dog is asleepon the last day of January,Franz Schubert’s birthday.The classical stationwill surely play his string quartetsand songs, and if I have to drive,the electrons of my mind canescape…
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Cassandra Atherton: Why Prose Poetry? [Nin Andrews]
I was listening to the New Yorker Fiction podcast the other day, to Teju Cole reading and commenting on Anne Carson’s beautiful story 1=1 when I heard, early in the podcast, Deborah Treisman point…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 31, 2024
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 31, 2024 with graphic Yesterday Scribner released Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures following her 2018 debut book Ghost Of. Diana once again uses her skills as a visual artist—this time her…
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The Cover of “Time” (January 31, 1969)
On January 31, 1969, Time magazine broke the story.
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On J. G. Ballard’s “Evening in the Sun” (from Newsweek, 28 January 1985)
from "Newsweek", 28th January 1985Prisoner in Shanghai by David Lehman, with Donna Foote in Shepperton, England Stint not on the superlatives: "Empire of the Sun" belongs on anyone's short list of outstanding novels inspired…
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Marsha de la O: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________ Poem Beginning in Loneliness Let’s start with the loneliness …