Sometimes great writing lurks in otherwise ordinary landscapes. That was the case for the following speech by Raymond Reddington (James Spader) in a November 2015 episode of The Blacklist. Spader, whose character Alan Shore enjoyed regular excellent … [Read more]
Digitally Induced Affective Disorder and Possible Antidotes
Our attachment to digital forms of communication, especially smart phones, may be responsible for the emergence of symptoms that are strikingly similar to other affective disorders. To call it a Digitally Induced Affective Disorder (DIAD) is … [Read more]
The Earth’s Sweet Pull: Linda Gregerson’s Concision
A poetry collection of work spanning nearly nearly 40 years for any living poet deserves attention, but Prodigal (Martin Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) goes beyond satisfying collector lust. Linda Gregerson's collection represents … [Read more]
Inside “The House of Breath”
Reviewer Louis Bayard worries that William Goyen will continue to be lost "among the boldfaced names he fraternized with." If passages like the one he lifts from Goven's The House of Breath for a review of Clark Davis's biography It Starts with … [Read more]
A Voice for Employment Fairness: Farsighted, Faint
Allison Pugh's (@Allison_Pugh) sociology project, The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity paints a grim picture of work life in America and forecasts that it will get worse. She does not mention anything about it getting … [Read more]
Vague Justice in the Sea of Words
Writers like Kate Braverman and Ann Michaels demonstrated that it is possible to jump into hyperdrive from poetry to fiction and to preserve the musicality and concision of poetry in a sea of words that is fiction. It seemed fair to anticipate a … [Read more]
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