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Blog Exclusive: Emily Fragos in conversation with Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell was the purest paradigm of the Balanchine dancer. The great choreographer created one masterpiece after another for her. During her illustrious career with the New York City Ballet, she danced 150 roles…
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Poetic Justice: A Note on Donald Justice [by David Lehman]
Donald Justice, who died on this day (August 6) in 2004, was the sort of poet other poets like the most. His life wasn’t flashy, full of messy divorces and…
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The Oasis / Pinochle [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Oasis Now (at last) living alone in Barstow He loves getting a load of laundry From the dryer and taking a nap With the warm clothes on his head. That's why he rented…
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An Interview with Loren Goodman [by Aspen Matis]
Loren Goodman is the author of Famous Americans, selected by W.S. Merwin for the 2002 Yale Series of Younger Poets, and Non-Existent Facts (otata’s bookshelf, 2018), as well as the chapbooks Suppository Writing (The…
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“We nibbled on it like mice.” Novelist Bell Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) on her first taste of chocolate.
Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels (Up the Downstair Case), recalls the food shortages of her childhood in Soviet Ukraine and how her early memories of…
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“Fedora, Trench-Coat, Cigarette, and Gun” [by David Lehman]
From The American Scholar July 17, 2021. Click here for the rest of this "Talking Pictures" post. Here's an excerpt: <<<Humphrey Bogart was far from your conventional heartthrob. Not blessed with the looks of…
