Ah, reverie. This energy I find in the most unexpected places–it need not be for hills and lonely streams, just as lonely as Manhattan’s sewers, some 600 miles of them…
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Over at the Danforth Review they are discussing essential fiction and 22 or so writers, Canadian writers I hasten to add, have added their 10 or so “must reads”. I…
The smoking gun in the whole Smoking Gun examination into the James Frey phenomenon is actually the ridiculousness of a book such as this gaining the kind of popularity it…
Tomorrow Night: Two Jordan Davis EventsTHE MILLION POEMS SHOW Wednesday, January 116:30 pmBowery Poetry Club308 Bowery212.614.0505http://www.bowerypoetry.com and then 8 pmJordan Davis & Susan WheelerThe Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church131…
I wasn’t surprised by Silliman’s recent post about the ever-declining number of posts on the Poetics Listserv, probably partly due to a shift in single-voiced blogs–upwards of 700 listed on…
Sporadic posts due to overwhelming deadlines, but I’ve been reading Perloff’s 21st-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics, the introduction to which is reprinted here. Lots of ideas, but loved this quote:…
Hidamari no tami arrived today from a friend in San Fransisco. After much pensive interaction with this objet, I began to feel a little like King Kong poking at Fay…
One of the stranger things I miss about Christmas in Canada is the Queen’s Christmas message. Why should this white-haired tertiary head-of-state be so moving? Every year I resist, and…
Christmas trees on Montague Street. Many of the tree salesmen are young men from Quebec who come to New York for the season, sleeping in their cars for the three…
Chelsea was a ghost town, nary a dog in sight. There was one gallery, Matthew Marks, that I knew I had to catch, so it was the one I called,…
King KongThe only thing I remember from the 70s King Kong was the awful mixed feelings I had watching Jessica Lange writhing around in the palm of the big ape.…
Rabble is good stuff, and now they have a book section! Yes, even better. Smart posts, intelligent reviews, this may be the best online window into Canada yet.