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Peter Fortunato, Guest Author November 18-22
This week we welcome Peter Fortunato as our guest author. Peter grew up in Wappingers Falls and Poughkeepsie, New York at a family run restaurant and resort much like the one in his novel,…
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Long Live Noir — and No R [by David Lehman]
A few years ago I wrote a piece for The American Scholar employing the Raymond Roussel method of composition that obliges the author to commence with one word or phrase and end with a…
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Beautiful Dreamer: Lawrence Tibbett and Frank Sinatra on the radio (1945)
Lawrence Tibbett, the great baritone, a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera, was born on November 16, 1896. Happy birthday, Larry. "Beautiful Dreamer" is one of Stephen Foster's greatest serenades (1864). Jonathan Guyot Smith sings…
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Nabokov on Chess
You wrote this marvellous novel The Luzhin Defence: are you a very good chess player? And what do you think of [Bobby] Fischer’s attitude? Forty years ago I was a good enough player of chess,…
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Lydia Davis Thrives, We Thrive [by Angela Patrinos]
If you want to pack the house, invite Lydia Davis. The prose poets claim her, the fictionists claim her, and the translators show up to give her a cold, admiring eye. Indeed, 150 people…
