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“Moby-Cock: Phallicisms in Melville’s Moby-Dick” [by Daniel Nester]
<<<Only one hand-written page remains in my files. “To travel the Pequod with Herman Melville,” I began, “is to embark on an exclusively male journey.” To extract phallicisms from Moby-Dick is to simply draw…
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Carmencita [by David Lehman]
My dear friend Nietzsche, never one to mince words, came over and held forth on the subject of opera. "You can have your Verdi and your Wagner," he said, waving his hand dismissively. "Give…
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The Complete Works of Frank Zappa — an American composer (1940-1993) (Part 5) [by Lewis R. Saul]
RELEASES #54-67 (1989-1997) 54. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (2CD, Rykodisc RCD 10085/86, November 13, 1989) 25 Tracks Five previously unreleased tracks ("Ride My Face to Chicago," "Carol You Fool," "Chana…
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Does Anyone Care About F. R. Leavis? [by David Lehman]
I recently reread F. R. Leavis's New Bearings in English Poetry (1932), one of the most influential books of literary criticism in the twentieth century. What impressed me on this reading — my first…
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The Complete Works of Frank Zappa — an American composer (1940-1993) (Part 4) [by Lewis R. Saul]
RELEASES #41-53 (1984-1988) 41. Thing-Fish (3LP, Barking Pumpkin SKCO-74201, November 21, 1984) It will soon be 30 years. When this three-album box-set was released, many Zappa fans were severely disappointed. Many old tracks were…
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Albert York, “Woman and Skeleton” (c. 1967) [by David Lehman]
I love this painting by Albert York, the famously reclusive painter, said (by Calvin Tompkins) to be " "the most highly admired unknown artist in America." York, who died in 2004 at the age…
