PinnedTed BurkeMcCarthy 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…3 min read·Oct 29, 2022----
Ted BurkeJOHN UPDIKE’S UNDER PRAISED GENIUSNorman Mailer, in a breezy dismissal of John Updike’s novel Rabbit Run, called Updike the sort of writer who was popular with the mass of…8 min read·2 days ago--1--1
Ted BurkeREVOLVER : Best Beatles Album?The reasons Beatle fans, in general (rather than only “hipsters”), prefer Revolver to Sgt. Pepper is for the only reason that really…3 min read·4 days ago----
Ted BurkeGET HAPPY by Elvis Costello and The AttractionsA seeming majority of music critics, reviewers, and ill-cultured taste mongers have exhausted their supply of superlatives, justifying the…4 min read·5 days ago----
Ted BurkePAUL AUSTER’S BARBED WIRE LINE BREAKSAn ironic choice, I suppose, since I’ve spent quite a bit of energy railing against that reflects upon its processes But Paul Auster’s…5 min read·May 1, 2024----
Ted BurkeA Short Interview with TED BURKEDG: I’d like to begin with your work as a bookseller. Aspiring writers want MFAs — they want to publish their books, but very few are…29 min read·May 1, 2024----
Ted BurkeA NOTE ON HAYDEN CARRUTHHayden Carruth, as fine a poet who has ever taken a drink and recovered from the culminated grief of the fact, died at the age of 87 in…3 min read·May 1, 2024----
Ted BurkeADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAt face value, the poem “About My Mother” By Adam Zagajewski appealed to me; I'm in favor of the rushing stream of words, breathless and…2 min read·Apr 25, 2024----
Ted BurkeIggy Pop was a drummer in blues bands before he and his fellows formed the Stooges in the 60s, and…No band embraced nihilism with more profound off-handedness than The Stooges. Part of their genius lies in t their lyrics, hardly cliché…6 min read·Apr 24, 2024----
Ted BurkePoems by Barry GoldensohnSomewhere in space the tempest of intellection vs emotion in contemporary poetry ensues, participants more passionate than habitual losers…12 min read·Apr 4, 2024----