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Amapola & Besame Mucho, Cielito Lindo & Granada [sung by Juan Diego Florez] & Benny Goodman’s “Amapola”
Great singer. . .and also listen to Benny Goodman on the clarinet
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How Reviewers at the NY Times treated Fitzgerald, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, et al
YThis is how reviewers at the NY Times treated certain books: Scott Fitzgerald:“Bad news is best blurted out at once: ‘Tender Is the Night’ is a disappointment. Though it displays Mr. Fitzgerald’s most engaging…
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The Ashbery Influence [by David Lehman]
Do not underestimate JA's influence. In 1989 I wrote a poem titled "One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay." It appeared in the New York Review of Books and has been anthologized in The…
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D. Nurkse: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________ Dominant Harmony In that dream I pinched myself and my father said No! You cannot wake by suffering.…
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What makes an American “classic”?’ [by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes]
A special issue of NEW AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL (© Göttingen University Press) devoted to a forum on the subject of "classics" and American literature includes 'What makes an American “classic“?' by Caterina…