Criticism
… production where the novel is read word for word—completed a successful Los Angeles run in November. Brooks … of its largest rooms “The Fitzgerald Suite” in April. I’ve also been distracted from writing sooner by the Great Gatsby … World War II (when it was distributed to active duty soldiers) and has been with us since. It’s among the most …
Poetry
… With your stone buildings around which the years have come to sniff? You’re so far away from the Paris sun and … groaning, Scraping lightly against its sphere At a million points of contact, Making sure of its mountains, Of its … the retina’s ray Provokes a feeble noise. Everything that’s died on earth Prowls space sniffing at life, Examining the …
Criticism
… wafts across the page: why would Holt choose a full-bodied red from Bordeaux rather than an Alsatian Riesling to accompany the famously heavy dish of that same region? Leaving … ending, it will run backwards ad infinitum. As Swinburne points out, God is a necessary being “in the sense that he …
Poetry
… I am growing & I find this frightful that my body will become too large to live here comfortably. The earth opens for me as I always knew it … a willful child, a little bruised & if I go out I will die dreaming. IV. I had forgotten the small news of the …
Fiction
… envisioned a spray-tanned public-relations major at a local community college. She pictured the girl’s manicured nails … squat brown men in huge sombreros—serenaded them. Kate studied the girls’ faces, wondering which one was the owner of … but that had since become the backdrop to Pepsi commercials. It was a small thing, but it irritated her, the music …
Fiction
… It’s warm for a day, then turns cold again. Zeke teaches composition in a windowless classroom. His new wife, Katie, … obligatory update. Mom is doing fine. So are Pelly and Eddie. Everyone great. It’s hot here. Brewers still suck. … in trouble. Zeke looks at Pelly when she comes in and then points at the Ziploc bag. “Aw, come on, Pelly, it’s pizza …