Features & Reviews
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Tips for Poets Inspired by Another Dead White Male
In order to become an epic poet, Milton believed he must also refuse “lustral waters.” In other words, aspiring artists must remain chaste.
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The Last Book I Loved: You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
Julia Phillips was the first female producer to ever win an Oscar. She won it in 1973, when she was 29, for The Sting, and then went on to produce Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A…
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A Book About My Father: George, Being George
I should perhaps start off by saying that I had almost nothing to do with the oral biography about my father, George Plimpton.
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Naked in DC
Craig Seymour is funny, precise, and egoless: the perfect combination for a good sex worker memoirist.
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Todd Zuniga: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
For a great while I’ve been away from reading short stories of real length—instead flipping back through Etgar Keret’s The Nimrod Flipout for three-page jolts of inspiration. But when I read Tower’s “Retreat” at a cafe in Brooklyn, I couldn’t…
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To Err Is Human
A memoir of the war in Afghanistan asks questions about war and responsibility and what it means to be an American after 9/11.
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Ari Messer: The Last Book I Loved, The Changing Light at Sandover
I hate agreeing with Harold Bloom. But what can I say? I fall easily and oddly and often (if sceptically) into Bloom’s spells of (particular) historical illumination and (annoying) lucidity.
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Zogg
Children’s books have always presented, in a sense, a kind of unique menace. They are among the first lengthy exposures that our children have which are dedicated to learning language. And yet, far more than most adult reading material, children’s…