PinnedMcCarthy Upsets LauraAfter a long absence from fiction, Cormac McCarthy returns with a double dose of his bleak imaginings with this month’s release of this…Oct 29, 2022Oct 29, 2022
On Dorianne Laux’s poetryI met Dorianne Laux twenty years go when she was a protégé of San Diego area poet Steve Kowit. She gave a reading at the bookstore I worked…Jan 12Jan 12
THE VARIABLE FOOTRon Padgett is every bit the off -hand and fresh-phrasing poet Billy Collins wants to be, and it’s his particular genius to write in such a…Nov 29, 2024Nov 29, 2024
the ECHO MAKER by Richard PowersThe Echo Maker has been called a “post 911 novel”,a description that seems to fit in that its central metaphor is the yearning for a time…Nov 2, 2024Nov 2, 2024
DID SOMEONE KILL PAINTING?. Back in the late Nineties I was involved in an online debate as to whether painting were a dead art , in view of the then emerging new…Sep 30, 2024Sep 30, 2024
BIG IF : A Comic Novel About The Secret Service and Insurance InvestigatorsRecent controversies about how well the Secret Service can provide protection for past and current American presidents commends us to have…Sep 21, 2024Sep 21, 2024
2 NOVELS BY RICHARD POWERSThe Echo Maker has been called a “post 911 novel”,a description that seems to fit in that its central metaphor is the yearning for a time…Sep 21, 2024Sep 21, 2024
DAWN POWELL’S GRAND SCREWBALL MASTERPIECETHE LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING a novel by Dawn PowellSep 21, 2024Sep 21, 2024
JOHN MAYALL ,RIPWhile scrolling through the headlines one morning, alternating between laughter and grunts at the day’s news, I abruptly stopped. A story…Sep 14, 2024Sep 14, 2024