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The New York School Diaspora (Part Thirty-Two): Diana Goetsch [by Angela Ball]
YOU COULD I stood in the middle of my kitchen eating butter. It was 11 a.m. on an overcast morningI was wearing—well, let’s not worry about what I was wearing. I don’t make a…
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When Life followed Art, which returned the compliment
Life magazine, August 8, 1949. "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The artIcle that changed the art world. Merely by asking the question, Life made it a self-fulfilling…
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The Definition of Gardening [poem by James Tate]
So many people in my various social media feeds are posting pictures of their gardens these days. I'm reminded of this poem, by James Tate, from his wonderful book Shroud of the Gnome. sdl…
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Martin Stannard: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_________________________________________________________________________ Princess of Thieves Since you left I’ve been absolutely fine, And I have something else I want to say: That “Best of Phil Collins” CD you have is mine. I have…
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“The Prophecy of an Assassination”: On “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) [by David Lehman]
When The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon, was released in 1962, Pauline Kael called it “the most sophisticated political satire ever to come out of Hollywood.” Six decades on, the…
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“A desire to capture events”: Nick Courtright & Cynthia Good in Conversation [by Kristina Marie Darling]
I'm excited to introduce this conversation between Cynthia Good and Nick Courtright, who I've paired because of their shared investment in travel, documentary poetics, and entrepreneurship in literature and the arts. Here, they discuss…
