the problem of impartiality and reviewing
At the risk of getting nothing but negative reviews for the rest of my life I have to comment on the terrible state of reviewing….thinking of course, of the recent slaughter of Nathalie Stephens in the Globe & Mail versus the glowing, gloss of a review such as the recent one of Paul Muldoon by...
Felix Reading Series, Madison Wisconsin
Ray Hsu, Hai, and Peter O’Leary…it was a long time coming, but I came home from that trip with a nasty, nasty virus that lasted several weeks. Go Badgers!
Big drama around the bird bath. The Robins do not like to share…and it seems like bathing is just a little erotic for them. Perhaps why they don’t like onlookers?
Drama at the bird bath…the Robins are nasty and won’t bathe with the sparrows. Bathing also seems to be a very erotic undertaking, perhaps why the sparrows aren’t invited?
Ah, Canada…here’s one tradition I can’t help but miss…the Queen’s annual Christmas address. Is the fact that I’m a good girl from the colonies why I loved The Queen, as well? Or is it that we’re just so starved for women in leadership roles? Even if they are tertiary? I had an Episcopalian Christmas Eve…very...
Quote of the week
Dr. Cameron: Men should grow up. Dr. Gregory House: Yeah. And dogs should stop licking themselves. It’s not gonna happen.javascript:void(0)
random fiction notes, part 1
Photo: NY Times Nadine Gordimer: I have been remiss on this recent biography, though biographies are notoriously, well, strained (I’m trying to think of a good one). Clearly there is much more to this particular bio and the young Ronald Suresh Roberts must have had a difficult time in many respects…On the other hand it...
Lyn Hejinian, from Happily
Constantly I write this happily Hazards that hope may break open my lips What I feel is taking place, a large context, long yielding, and to doubt it would be a crime against it I sense that in stating “this is happening” Waiting for us? It has existence in fact without that We came when...
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