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It’s been a while since I heard from the jittery fiend who calls himself Raskolnikov P. Firefly, a former colleague of mine long since gone ...

You're probably exhausted from following the Archambeau World Tour 2010 motorcade, which has already ranged all the way from, well, uh, ...

Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" is, to my mind, the most successful piece of public art in all of Chicago. It is also more repr...

I can’t decide whether it’s David Shields’ courage I admire, or that of his publisher. You know Shields, I think, at least by reputation: a...

A few years ago I wrote an article that said (along with some things about Surrealism and Aestheticism) that the more extravagant claims for...

Back in the summer of 2008 I spoke at the Sorbonne about the poetry associated with Cambridge and J.H. Prynne, and tried to understand what ...

The redoubtable Don Share and I will be reading this Sunday (that's right: Mothers' Day) at Myopic Books in Chicago (1564 North Mil...

There's a nice note about my book Laureates and Heretics up on the Boston University creative writing program blog . In other L & ...

You know me, people: I like to hole up in my study and paw through the pages of obscure texts in solitude as much as the next soft-handed, g...

Bewildered by what happened on Wall Street? Furrow that brow no more. The Samizdat Blog financial research team has figured it all out. I...

No, the late Robert Duncan hasn't risen to walk among us (although it sort of looks like he's thinking about it in the photo above, ...

A Short and Easy Commonplace Book So there I was, gently noodling my way around the internet in search of nothing in particular, when I ran ...