The coolest thing I’ve learned this year to date comes from One-Man Band, the third volume of Simon Callow’s definitive Orson Welles biography. I finished reading it back in June, but […]
To conclude my little series of posts about American poets, I selected Langston Hughes, one of the outstanding writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes borrowed from blues and jazz music […]
The third poet I’ve explored this year rests comfortably between the traditional formalism of Dickinson and the experimentation of Cummings. Whitman is, for many, the great American poet, the bard […]
I’ve just completed my second journey through the works of an American poet this year. Dickinson’s nineteenth-century verse is certainly more traditional than Cummings’s, but she herself was original in […]
For the last few weeks I’ve been reading through Complete Poems by E.E. Cummings (Liveright, 1994) — well, reading through most of it, skimming some poems and skipping a few of […]
I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared on Facebook in August and September of this year. Cited below are excerpts that spell out the gist of […]
I’ve selected eight of the most interesting online articles I shared to Facebook in June and July of this year. Cited below are excerpts that give a little more information […]
I’ve selected seven of the most interesting online articles I shared to Facebook in April and May of this year. Cited below are excerpts that give a little more information […]
Lois Lane: You’ve got me? Who’s got you? It’s summertime; let’s talk about superheroes. If I were to argue that the comic book exists as an art form at the […]
Worthwhile articles I shared on Facebook in February and March, with excerpts to give you a taste for each of them, although of course I recommend you read the complete […]
Geppetto's Clocks 