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“Sportswriter” [by Dean Smith]
"Sportswriter" Hartzell’s cartoon birdon the front page of the Suntaught me to read—“Birds edge Bosox” or“Orioles drub Twins.” My team routed,pummeled, crushed,and bombed opponents—just like the B-52sin the headlines. Years later, in smoke-ladenhallways and…
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“How Rich” (For Richard Howard) [by David Lehman]
How Rich The root of influence is astrological and is related to influenza. . . . Forty-five years ago I met Richard Howard in the same place where we have met many times since:…
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Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
Jack Benny John Ashbery called me after he died So you can imagine my excitement When in that droll hyper-nasalated Timbre quite unchallenged by death He chatted on about the bowls of Pitted cherries…
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“My November Guest’ [by Robert Frost]
My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rainAre beautiful as days can be;She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walked the sodden pasture lane.…
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Maugham of the Day
From The Razor's Edge (1944): "Have you never thought of divorcing Gray?""I've got no reason for divorcing him.""That doesn't prevent your countrywomen from divorcing their husbands when they have a mind to."She laughed.'Why d'you suppose they…
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John Updike in 2004: New Novel Seethes With Sex [by David Lehman]
e 2004‑11‑01 00:06 (New York) Books: Updike's Novel Seethes With Sex; Philosophy Made Simple (Review. David Lehman is a critic for Bloomberg News. Theopinions expressed are his own.) By David Lehman. Nov.…
