Some of the greatest poets since Homer
The Progressive reprints James Baldwin’s A Letter to My Nephew for the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Progressive reprints James Baldwin’s A Letter to My Nephew for the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Dorothy Parker’s lost poems are at the center of a lawsuit. (Thanks, LM. For kicks: Sean Carman’s recently channeled Parker poems.)
The Gainesville Sun sets the new typo-per-sentence record in a blurb for Patrick Hughes’ Diary of Indignities.
In How to Read Elfriede Jelinek, Tim Parks is particularly withering on Greed, though he wonders how much fault lies with the translation.
Shredded Stasi spy documents — think The Lives of Others, but real life — are being pieced together by pattern-recognition software.