… already begun and indeed the backbone of the plan has become a bone of contention. Her universities have gathered a … the meantime swelling the deposits of the banks whose officials compose the Protective Committees; and because the City … There are over four hundred local governmental taxing bodies, most of them boards and commissions with overlapping …
Fiction
… But Elvis wasn’t alive, and now when the tourist ladies went weeping to Graceland their faces were more … look like tourists, that the bartender thought they might come back? If so, did that make him straight, a guy who … how my former frat brother’s doing, the former head of the IFC, you know what that is? I didn’t think so. Fraternity …
Poetry
… wants to be groped the group scores me strokes me scores points by being silent the boss’s hair has turned grayer and …
… (built 1825—43), at Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut (1826—30), at the Chalmette Battlefield near New Orleans … allusions to individual bravery and the anonymity of the soldiers who fought there are deliberately democratic gestures. … and trendy mode of commemorative monument: historical websites that serve as educational memorials of enduring …
Interviews
… Short fictions don’t lodge themselves in my thoughts. They come and they go, and then they exist on the page, or in my … with my father at the moment of his death. Right before he died, he looked up to the ceiling and said “Jesus, Joseph, … capable of the focused intensity of poetry. That said, I also especially like working on plays with a director, …
… Rosen was the embassy’s press attache from December 1978, becoming one of the hostages eleven months later. His wife … drama and of course consumed with silly questions, Ramazani points out that the Western concept of influence is … at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies was completely mystified by this. He knew of the Third …