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An Interview with Loren Goodman [by Aspen Matis]
Loren Goodman is the author of Famous Americans, selected by W.S. Merwin for the 2002 Yale Series of Younger Poets, and Non-Existent Facts (otata’s bookshelf, 2018), as well as the chapbooks Suppository Writing (The…
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“We nibbled on it like mice.” Novelist Bell Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) on her first taste of chocolate.
Bel Kaufman, z"l, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem and author of award-winning novels (Up the Downstair Case), recalls the food shortages of her childhood in Soviet Ukraine and how her early memories of…
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“Fedora, Trench-Coat, Cigarette, and Gun” [by David Lehman]
From The American Scholar July 17, 2021. Click here for the rest of this "Talking Pictures" post. Here's an excerpt: <<<Humphrey Bogart was far from your conventional heartthrob. Not blessed with the looks of…
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An Introduction to John Tranter (Part 1) [by Thomas Moody]
The difficulty in introducing John Tranter is knowing where to begin. Surely any attempts to elucidate his poetry would be reductive, and any measure of its influence fall embarrassingly short. Tranter is a major…
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Louis Armstrong: A Study in Aries Rising [by David Lehman]
Louis Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 if you believe him or August 4, 1901 if you believe your lying eyes. Let's assume the latter as astrologically valid. A Leo, then, with Aries…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Twelve): John Gallaher [by Angela Ball]
Garden of Mirrors (Architecture 23) I look up from lunch and see a guy dozing back in his chair and I imagine my dead father that way, perpetual sleeping passenger, his head full of…
