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Deirdre Madden, an Irish fiction writer, is one of my favorite authors writing today.  Her work is elegantly structured, economical, her c...

I fell over a review of Ali Smith's Artful (The Penguin Press, 2012) by happenstance this past week, thought it sounded interesting, ...

Sarah Salway , friend and author of the novels Tell Me Everything and Getting the Picture (among others), has just published her first v...

Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Monday at 88 (hat tip: Bookslut ) I posted som...

As avid bookish folk, I thought you would like to know about the following: Writer Sarah Salway author of the novel Tell Me Everything , ...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flo...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flo...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flowe...

I've posted some of William Carlos Williams's poems before but not this one and, having just heard it read by Bill Irwin, I have to ...

The day's musings are by Frank O'Hara, not me. His warped angle was necessary to counteract all the rain and all the talk. This poe...

A fabulous New York night yesterday with my fabumanic old friend Shiela . After four hours of neurosicence, I headed down to the East Vi...

Barry McCrea's The First Verse delivers a suspense-filled punch. I read the final 200 pages in a single sitting. For my earlier posts...

- And Bees of Paradise I had come all the way here from the sea, Yet met the wave again between your arms Where cliff and citadel - all ve...

American composer John Adams and librettist Peter Sellars have created an unlikely hybrid in Doctor Atomic - an abstract documentary ope...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flowe...

I don't have time for a full post on Wallace Stevens today, but since Mark Thwaite recommended we carry him around today for Britain...

I was sad to learn from Mark Sarvas that poet, critic (and tender curmudgeon laureate) Hayden Carruth died this week. Here is the Times o...

I managed to catch up on three weeks of Times Book Reviews and still get a good deal of my school reading done, take a walk in the park, co...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flowe...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flowe...