Madness on 2nd Avenue. Sporadic holiday posts.

Ah Pepys. Here’s a comment on Kinaston, the subject of the recent Stage Beauty about the moment when women began playing women on stage. Actually Pepys character was one of…

Thanks to Bookninja for pointing this out. Like the portal in Being John Malkovich, it turns out McNally Robinson, in SoHo, is a conduit for Canadian literary figures to slip…

More amazements. Here you can find Dylan Thomas reading a selection of poetry, and more seasonally appropriate, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, which after all, is still amazing.

A poem in which the first letter of each line makes up the name George W. Bush has been taken from the latest English language text in Islamabad, reports the…

Leslie Bumstead & Sina Queyras Poetry ProjectSt. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St.New York, NY Monday, 8:00pm All events are $8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members and…

For pleasant dreams.

Eye takes a look at lit journals. Sort of. Lit journals, the author claims “like farm journals, but without the sex appeal…are an ultra-niche phenomenon”. Really? I haven’t done the…

In my ongoing effort to include All Things Canadian in my sidebar, I have been visiting and revisiting sites. I’m looking to compile a complete list, but given my schedule,…