ABC OF READING

Remembering on Memorial Day Published in the Los Angeles Times. 25 May 2009 As recently as the late 1950s, in a small town on Long lsland n...

In the 15 years of its existence THE LITTLE REVIEW edited by Margaret Anderson and Jean Heap with the help of Ezra Pound published among man...

BOOKS I WILL TRY TO READ AS IF REALLY IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE: SUMMER FALL WINTER SPRING One Summer seems to be a time when people PLAN to r...

48 Vladimir Nabokov once said that when he was sent a new novel he would open it, scan the pages and if it contained mostly dialogue he woul...

Another aspect of the dumbness of Elaine Showalter became apparent when a friend, TW sent me a list of his favorite novels written by wome...

An underlining idea of what I have been trying to do is that one should never really trust academics when it comes to literary matters. The...

Sadder even than the famous three saddest words in the English language according to Gore Vidal--- Joyce Carol Oates--- I see that Farrar, ...