Sayrafiezadeh reviewed
Dwight Garner praises Sayrafiezadeh’s When Skateboards Will Be Free for its “wistful comedy” and curiosity about the intersection of “desire, self-sacrifice & societal obligation.”
Dwight Garner praises Sayrafiezadeh’s When Skateboards Will Be Free for its “wistful comedy” and curiosity about the intersection of “desire, self-sacrifice & societal obligation.”
Christian Lorenzten says Frederick Seidel emerges in his collected poems as a “reluctant but willful ambassador of American excess.”
Alison Bechdel reviewed Jane VandenÂburgh’s memoir in graphic form. During copy-editing, she had to add em dashes by hand.
Paper Cuts’ comments about 19th century boardinghouses and bedbug infestations, and — as people take in roommates to pay the bills and the scourge makes a comeback — the likely impending rise of both, called to mind John Cheever’s bedbug travails, as recounted in Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life. At the end of 1939, Cheever returned from a summer job . . .