Very interesting piece on Beckett in the Times this weekend, with various playwrights discussing Beckett’s influence. Here is Paula Vogel: “I wonder what would’ve happened had Beckett existed as a colleague, or a contemporary, or even as a forerunner to Virginia Woolf,” Ms. Vogel said. “What would’ve happened if she had seen the ability to...

I’m reading Attention all Typewriters at the moment, which is a pleasing read, and by that I mean, a pleasure. That there is so much pleasure and so little struggle may cause suspicion in some circles, and occasionally the one I am standing in too, though not today, not this book, and not because I’m...

And we love the Virginia Quarterly Review. Really. What a smart journal. Great taste in poetry, and diverse readings. An essay by David Quamman, a portfolio on Adrienne Rich. Who are these people and where have they been hiding? Yes, the poetry selection is conservative, that’s a flaw (people, read outside of your own perspective!!),...

Virginia Woolf committed suicide on this day in 1941. Her walking stick, found on the banks of the River Ouse, was sold at auction in 2002, and is now part of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. The spot where she left it when she jumped is included on the literary tours...

The Brooklyn Rail is great. This issue has an interview with Kate Braverman that made me want to buy her book, which I shall, and report back… But the interview I can recommend nonetheless. She’s wonderfully candid, and a poet turned fiction writer which is always intriguing. Here she discusses the lack of audience, something...

As I write this, Lemon Hound has gone to print! Coach House has done an amazing job! Launch details to come.

At a dinner party scene on the L Word, Max shares an anecdote about lobsters: how it’s only male lobsters you have to worry about leaping out of the pot when you’re trying to cook them. The males, sensing danger, make a ladder so that they can help each other climb out of the pot....

Poets who kick ass. Bergvall gets a nomination from me.

Is the gentle Moira to be seen no more? Oh, testosterone! Oh, Max! Is that what you guys have to contend with on a daily basis? Will she not only become the man, but be of the man? What would Gertrude say about all this strutting? Has she simply become Tim? Is everyone on the...

I am so behind in the reviews and posts, and here this book is, bobbing like a sail on the horizon of my room where it has been sitting next to Leslie Bumstead’s Cipher/Civilian, which I also intended to talk about. Both of these are first books. Bumstead’s was discussed at some length in a...

Trampoline Hall Tonight at The Slipper Room167 Orchard St.Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00 sharpAdmission $8 Because life really is a box of chocolates…