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I've just fished the April issue of Poetry out of my mailbox, and am stoked to find Gabriel and Marcel Piqueray — Belgian twins, Surrea...

Maybe it's because I finally got around to ordering up Milk on the pay-per-view the other day, or maybe it's just because I'v...

About a month ago, in reaction to the bombardment of comments I was getting about how cute my infant daughter was, I posted something about ...

"John Stuart Mill," Karl Marx is said to have opined, "owes his prominence in English philosophy entirely to the flatness of ...

Stand down with the defibrilator! Put that syringe away! Dr. Mike Theune has arrived in the E.R. and tells me I made a misdiagnosis in lab...

When I recently posted a few comments complaining about the clichés of contemporary poetry and calling the poetry that uses them decadent, I...

Jason Guriel defends the negative review in the latest issue of Poetry , and for readily apparent reasons. Right after the defense ("f...

I've yet to see a copy, but judging from the email I've been getting from people who've read my contribution to the issue, the l...

I think it must have been the most recent issue of that bible of literary hipsterism, The Believer , that got me thinking about the strangen...

"She's so cute! " I've been hearing a lot of comments like this lately from people who've seen my two-week old daught...

My unhealthy obsession with Belgian surrealism continues! In between hanging with my new daughter and writing an essay on the future of man...

Although I had a hand in putting together the list of readers for the just-completed Lake Forest Literary Festival, I had to be out of town ...