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Death and Noir: Lummis Asks Lehman
Suzanne Lummis: David, in your book forthcoming from Cornell University Press, A Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir, you confront mortality, not just death in the abstract but –with your cancer diagnosis — death as a more immediate…
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Bloom at “His Most Aloof and His Most Electrifying” [by Jason Guriel]
Harold Bloom, who died at 89 this week, has naturally been the subject of many elegies and obituaries. In 1998, Bloom kicked off a major controversy with his introduction to "The Best of the…
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Oscar Levant Nails It Again: “A politician is a man who. . .” [by DL]
Oscar Levant, who "knew Doris Day before she was a virgin," defined a politician as a man who will "double-cross that bridge when he gets to it." Has anyone read his book Memoirs of…
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Voices of Mississippi, 1957 (by Mitch Sisskind)
Lyle Ross CrockettUniversity Administrator “Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.”That those five words – or are there six? —Would ever append themselves to my name, (Or is my name the modest appendageTo those words?)…
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One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir by David Lehman [Review by Diane Cameron]
There are many personal stories of cancer. Many self-help stories and many memoirs. And yes, there are even cancer poems. But now we have a book that is both a cancer story and…
