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
the LOST POETS in the age of TrumpThe Lost Poets are a faux-anonymous duo from Sweden consisting of David Rosengren (vocals, guitar) and Petter Ossian Strömberg (drums), and…Mar 3Mar 3
ALL WRITERS HAS BEENNo protest against the greatness of Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne or Edgar Allen Poe, but really, their time is past, and this thread is…Mar 2Mar 2
Bob Dylan: A Complete UnknownExactly who Bob Dylan is remains a mystery to his millions of followers. It’s been estimated that over two thousand books have been written…Feb 1Feb 1
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