W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith at a photography workshop in Eugene, Oregon, 1966. Photographs by Don Getsug. Since January 1997, I’ve been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith. I was thirty...
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The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is both a misnomer and an anomaly. It has long dedicated itself to the task of promoting the reading and writing of poetry and has, for...
View ArticleMysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Self-Help, Self-Hate, Sense and Sensibility
In the last month, thanks to some timely advice from Sam Lipsyte in the Oslo airport, I’ve gone back to two books that I could never get through as a kid: Blood Meridian and Sense and Sensibility....
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Toward the end of college and for several years after, I kept two postcard photographs taped above my desk: one of Anaïs Nin, the other of Frank O’Hara—the mother and father of my literary interests...
View ArticleA Walk Around the Left Bank
Talking about the history of Shakespeare and Company on a stroll through Paris. From left to right: Sylvia Whitman, Lauren Elkin, and Krista Halverson. Photo: Mathew McWilliams It was the first of...
View ArticleVodka for Breakfast: On the Melancholy of Cheever’s Journals
Detail from the cover of the Vintage Classics edition of Cheever’s Journals There is something feckless about a writer’s journals. They are a specialist’s document, and those who parse their pages are...
View ArticleW. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith at a photography workshop in Eugene, Oregon, 1966. Photographs by Don Getsug. Since January 1997, I’ve been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith. I was thirty...
View ArticleHouse of Poesy: At the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is both a misnomer and an anomaly. It has long dedicated itself to the task of promoting the reading and writing of poetry and has, for...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Self-Help, Self-Hate, Sense and Sensibility
In the last month, thanks to some timely advice from Sam Lipsyte in the Oslo airport, I’ve gone back to two books that I could never get through as a kid: Blood Meridian and Sense and Sensibility....
View ArticleMysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist’s literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and...
View ArticleLunch Poem Letters
Toward the end of college and for several years after, I kept two postcard photographs taped above my desk: one of Anaïs Nin, the other of Frank O’Hara—the mother and father of my literary interests...
View ArticleA Walk Around the Left Bank
Talking about the history of Shakespeare and Company on a stroll through Paris. From left to right: Sylvia Whitman, Lauren Elkin, and Krista Halverson. Photo: Mathew McWilliams It was the first of...
View ArticleVodka for Breakfast: On the Melancholy of Cheever’s Journals
Detail from the cover of the Vintage Classics edition of Cheever’s Journals There is something feckless about a writer’s journals. They are a specialist’s document, and those who parse their pages are...
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