How did I not know about Eileen Myles? An icon, a feminist, oh, a feminist icon? An activist. A New York person, a person of that city, who can’t make…
Category: Prose & Narrative
Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists is up for a Giller Prize (the “darkest horse” in the race according to the Toronto Star), but she is also a poet, and the author…
“How ingenious, Anton! Did you carve it yourself?” This was the sort of inane question you asked Anton Kruppev. For you had to say something to alleviate the tension of…
Alice Munro, “Free Radicals” New Yorker, February 11 A new story by Alice Munro in the current New Yorker had the Hound up part of the night, and just when…