Her intonation like an incantation
A.M. Homes and Amy Hempel spoke at the Poets House tribute to Grace Paley. Listen at FSG’s poetry blog.
A.M. Homes and Amy Hempel spoke at the Poets House tribute to Grace Paley. Listen at FSG’s poetry blog.
Some critics have characterized Kurt Vonnegut’s Armageddon in Retrospect as a disappointing epitaph, and I can see why. This collection of previously unpublished writings on war and peace doesn’t really cohere as a traditional anthology. But as a road map of the literary path Vonnegut followed from a POW-repatriation camp to the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five 23 years later, it is . . .
The L.A. Public Library, facing a budget crisis, has proposed a service charge for each book circulated through inter-library loan.
Dildos made out of balloons feature prominently in Wistar Watts Murray’s hard-earned MFA application tutorial.