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Hudson house, final entry–metal desk lamp
Unlike most people’s houses, personal photographs do not adorn the mantels or the walls of the Hudson house offering snapshots from a life, yet the house is very personal. Photographs do not offer narratives…
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Swiftly Happy! [rogue post by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Derlink Bleaders, Spring has sprung! Not working for you? You a little ambivalent about pulling lilacs from the dead earth? Well this, as my five year old often announces, is your lucky day. Just…
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“Important Things” [by Ruth Homberg]
Important Things The night his heart was an empty refrigerator box we walked towards Sherman Park, and screamed at bare branches. With adolescent smoking, we practiced the art of blowing rings at the moon.…
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The Trouble Clef – Rachmaninov [by Lera Auerbach]
When one thinks of Rachmaninov, usually what comes to mind is his face, serious and stern, clean-shaven, with a short modern haircut. His expression is distant and cold. He looks like a British gentleman,…
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Much Depends on Dinner: Baking with Robin Neidorf and Talia
Robin Neidorf and I were classmates in graduate school and whenever I think of her or we exchange e-mails I have to remind myself that she's not still one year out of Williams College.…
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Mary Jo Bang Translates Dante’s “Inferno”
Botticelli's Dante [c. 1495] Canto III Welcome to the city of woe.Welcome to everlasting sadness.Welcome to the grave cave. Justice made the maker build it just like this—if being is power, power created it,…
