Make it known
John D’Agata’s The Making of the American Essay (2016) has a witty sequence of epigraphs from Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, and John Ashbery. But D’Agata isn’t the first to put them into a sequence.
Form and content
Joseph Joubert, John Ashbery.
Rae Armantrout, taking notes
I carry a blank book journal around with me most of the time and jot down things I see and hear, especially if they seem puzzling.
USA Arts
Streaming shows from Channel 13
Gilbert Sorrentino (1929-2006)
Comment on Aberration of Starlight and Sorrentino's poetry
Q and A
Marianne Moore
Writing and index cards
Elaine Fine (my wife), who like me has been carrying around a Hipster PDA , showed me this passage yesterday: I have index cards and pens a...
New links
Under "fiction," I've added a link for John Steinbeck, to a Paris Review compilation of his thoughts on writing (a free download). Under "p...
Odes to autumn
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. . . . It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every cours...