Fiction
… Instigator. The best way to settle a dispute is: Compromise, Vote, Debate, Lead pipe. I think about my … on the long pavement. Slowly, like young plants, our bodies rotated toward the sun. Sligo and I turned east, toward … God create something then ignore its fate? Was the devil also a part of God? If understanding was freedom, why had it …
… real nice, and that’s what she likes to hear. When the guys come around after work, I kind of flip through the … I kissed her breasts as she slept. I kissed her nipples to points and she reached her sleepy arms around me and I moved … or nothing,” I laughed, trying to cheer her up. “I could’ve died with him,” she said. “I was tiny and I could’ve died, …
… in 1948, and I was disgusted by the tactics of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (hereafter HUAC or the … pocket and pointed to a headline: Harry Dexter White had died of a heart attack.” Nixon claims that the subcommittee … Of our three autobiographical narrators, only Hiss points out that White’s heart condition had become an issue …
Essays
… or a box of soap flakes) wrote as if part of their audience were elsewhere. Ours was still a poetry of naïve … was the first American poet who ought to have been incomprehensible anywhere else, yet he had many English … to ignorance. Most societies are wary of raw-grained originals; Whitman’s was inoculated against him. It would have …
… asked the younger man a few polite questions about his studies; and the student replied that he was writing a book on … Things Past.” As a child, I suffered from a series of odd complaints which, many years later, became popularly known … always indirectly, and as if afraid to arouse in me false ambitions and hopes, Conrad questioned me about my …
Criticism
… similar sentiments: while not a lone wolf at Salon.com, she does self-assign and if a book doesn’t grab her … At the panel, Mobilio argued that you don’t get points for showing up, nor should an avant-garde poet or a … whose methodical deconstruction of Ian McEwan’s Solar embodies West’s call for critics to “rebuke these hastinesses of …