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Gertrude Stein, never out of date. . . [by DL]
"Rose is a rose is a rose." — Gertrude Stein "It is what it is." — contemporary version
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From the Archive: The Creative Process: Painting, Writing, and the Case for Ruthlessness (by Tess Callahan)
Even before I began writing, I loved to draw and paint. Although I enjoyed it, I never considered it as a profession. Maybe I was afraid of the impracticality, or like my character, Oliver,…
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Can women have it all? No way, Jose! [by David Lehman]
I just got the July / August issue of The Atlantic and note that the lead article, judging by size of type and prominence of cover placement, is "Why Women Still Can't Have it…
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From the Archive: Franz Kafka, 3 July 1883- 3 June 1924
Franz Kafka was born today. In the black-and-white Prague of his boyhood the sun shone yellow on the gray pavement. Debates were held in the cathedral. The rituals of life were very great. Every…
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Camus on Irony: When does the truth get censored? [by David Lehman]
The July 2012 Harper’s has a lot going for it, but a most enjoyable surprise for this reader was a previously unpublished, because censored, essay that Albert Camus wrote in 1939 — November 25,…
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Virginia Quarterly Review Inaugurates Poetry Posters with David Lehman’s “Poem in the Manner of the 1960s”
The Virginia Quarterly Review writes to tell us that every Friday they will be offering up a poem that’s appeared in an issue of VQR in mini-poster form. David Lehman’s “Poem in the Manner…
