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"Visions and Affiliations": 65 years of Bay Area poetry
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Evan Karp writes about a new book covering sixty-five years of Bay Area poets and poetry. The resulting lavish and entertaining two-volume chronology is just part one of a continuing timeline being compiled by Jack Foley, who in the article sa
… Read full post »"Jewball": Neal Pollack's Philly-noir novel is Kindle only
"Smoking Typewriters:" the underground press, then and now
"We're turning into a generation whose thing is to be an Audience, whose life-style is the mass get-together for good vibes." (The Berkeley Tribe, December 12-19, 1969)
That quote seems a surprisingly contemporary view of our media-driven culture, in its way, even as it describes the… Read full post »
"Mischievous" (Weekend fiction prompt)
"Victorious mynah bird"
Mischievous
"Mango?" Myra murmured. I demurred: "myah," mostly mumbled. On the mantel was a minor mynah bird, miffed at my mu… Read full post »
Jorge Luis Borges, born August 24, 1899
when the entire universe is one."
"Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth,"
in The Aleph (1949) Read full post »
"Start ... stop" (Weekend fiction prompt)
"Start ... stop"
The birds brought the sun up and I put on the coffee, following that old piece of advice from the sages: coffee first, thinking afterwards. What ideas my poo/… Read full post »
Barbecue and sweet tea and GooGoo Clusters
Lennons' "Bed Peace" is online until midnight Sunday
A personal note from BellemeadeBooks: One of my Facebook friends was invited by John & Yoko to participate in the event. She was 16 in 19… Read full post »
What "classic literature" do writers leave unread?
Some summer silliness: "Dances with the Imbeciles"
William Wordsworth
A bit late comes this report of a literary game even Nabokov might enjoy. The article, written by Phyllis Rose, appeared in the April 2002 issue of The… Read full post »
"La Petite Coquette" (OS fiction Wednesday)
Philippe d'Louis and his daughter Lily
"La Petite Coquette"
Neighbors to the Proust household were Phillippe d'Louis and his young daug… Read full post »
Capote and "In Cold Blood": "It nearly killed me"
Truman Capote's legacy these days seems secure in American letters, and his personal life has become familiar to moviegoers and magazine readers over the years since his death at age 59. Yet it remains difficult to imagine the i
"In the Year 2525: America's Manifest Density"
What was left of the sun was just coming up over the pink and yellow waves. Oh, baby, I thought. Gonna be some good explosions today.
Maybe mine. What a rush that'll be.
The half-sun… Read full post »
"Label 228": The USPS medium is the message
It was only a matter
of time before Andre the Giant really did have a
posse.
The black-and-white image of wrestler Andre the Giant on stickers
affixed t… Read full post »
from "The Glugs of Gosh," 1915: "the critic Swanks lay snug"
Boehner tries to control his own Frankenstein monster
Apparently, the Speaker of the House has never learned the lessons of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here, for example, he could learn how difficult it might be to control the Tea Party monster "... whom &/… Read full post »
Jagger is ... 68? Naw! That means I'm ...... oh. Yeah.
"A very important question" (Wednesday fiction)
Berry Benson, CSA, South Carolina
(escaped prisoner, Elmira, NY 1864)
"A very important question"
(young reporter Mark Twain interviews Berry Benson)
... Once more I was subject to the sudden hospitality of darkness and pain, and tired as I was I would/… Read full post »
A cat tale (question for Tink and the OS cat community)
Open Salon, meet Dylan. Here's a picture of Dylan at his most recent 3,000-nap checkup.
Dyl is fifteen, and an avowed snuggle-holic. I adopted Dylan in April when he moved from… Read full post »
Toronto Poetry Vendors: (in)dispensable poetry
Toronto Poetry Vendors: "(in)dispensable poetry"
The site maisonnueve reports that two Canadian poets have found a way -- finally -- to bring poetry to the people in a familiar and user-friendly method: the vending machine. For a toonie ($2 Canadian) the buyer receives a previously u… Read full post »
A few words about libraries from Keith Richards
Debt and taxes: the character of presidents
"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have… Read full post »
"9-star accommodations": Adventures & sketches from Brazil
"badbadbad," a trippy novel into the heart of weird America
"Gun play," a poem by M Bromberg
Gun play
M Bromberg
I was feeling fat and stupid
in afternoon summer heat
Stevie and I
were just shooting the breeze
I went to change my shirt
and when I came back to the porch
the curtain was already up… Read full post »
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