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from “Lionel Trilling’s Literary Moralism” [by Michael Aeschliman]
<< As a sophisticated, agnostic New York Jew and the child of poor immigrants, Trilling was no stranger to WASP snobbery, antisemitism, and self-indulgence. Socially exclusive, Yale and Princeton in the 1920s and ’30s…
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‘What I Can See from Here” [by Tom Disch]
Tom Disch excelled at every literary genre he tried his hand at and had big infuential fans and yet — and yet he was dogged by bad luck, by a prejudice against genre fiction…
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3 Poems in One [by Martin Stannard]
The afternoon is all mine, and this afternoon three poems ofwhich I have no recollection of having written were publishedin a literary journal much admired by everyone who is in it,so I telephoned Customer…
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What Were You Reading in 2009? [by David Lehman]
What Are You (Looking Forward to) Reading, David Lehman? By Craig Morgan Teicher / July 29, 2009 [Thank you for asking, Craig.] Like other busy people I tend to read more during the summer,…
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“Franz Liszt” [from “The Bonus Round” by Mitch Sisskind]
If this were the 21st of October. . .I'd say happy birthday, Franz! You too, Mitch! I've been (is this the right word?)An ignoramus. I revere Liszt and nowI finally see how his…
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Tom Stoppard, “The Most Grateful Englishman” [by Kyle Smith]
Tom Stoppard frequently and approvingly quotes Cecil Rhodes’s remark, much ridiculed by those in a position to take their own culture for granted, that “to be born an Englishman is to have drawn first prize…
