Orr on Ryan
David Orr calls new U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan a terrific poet, and sees echoes in her work of Marianne Moore & Stevie Smith.
David Orr calls new U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan a terrific poet, and sees echoes in her work of Marianne Moore & Stevie Smith.
Take the Survey of American Jewish Language, the first to track North Americans’ use and recognition of Hebrew and Yiddish words. (Thanks, Thisbe.)
On July 28 I’ll be reading at The Delancey with Ben Greenman, Ron Hogan, and other fellow contributors to Coudal’s Field-Tested Books.
If you can’t make it to Aleksandar Hemon’s Central Park reading with Junot Díaz, approximate the experience by reading this, listening to this, & watching this.
Has anyone done more in the past six years to foster reading than Bookslut founder Jessa Crispin? What started as a blog and monthly magazine written and edited on the clock at Planned Parenthood has grown into a full-time gig that leaves Crispin plenty of time to read, to write about reading, and to endure dreadful publishing events filled with . . .