“If stories were amusement park rides, some readers would want to ride the Tower of Terror time after time, while others want to ride only the train that toodles past the duck pond and gives passengers a chance to look...
Read MoreThe brand new “The New Yorker” has a long piece about dystopian YA novels. Tobin’s “Feed” is praised (as it should be) and the author takes others to task a bit for their silliness and lack of...
Read MoreHe comes back reciting the poetry of war. Not that crap from high school, those stupid roads diverging. The real poetry of war. It recites itself to him, and he recites it back. He’d like to give a rat’s ass about the night...
Read Moreand listen to me read some poems. Watch me read, too, as — Chris points this out — the light bounces off my shiny head.Somebody shot and then posted a reading at Beyond Baroque, a local and much revered L.A. site....
Read MoreThere’s an interesting review of Adam Rapp’s new play in the current (May 31) “The New Yorker.” But I’m only writing about some information about AR in the piece, and not about the play. AR taught...
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