Samizdat Blog

It's always good to hear what intelligent people have to say about what one writes, so I consider it a great end-of-year treat to run...

Vince Sherry mesmerizing the present humble blogger with talk of modernist decadence Hot damn, people! Vincent Sherry, author of such...

No, not Orlando, Florida: Virginia Woolf's Orlando, which I've been reading for the first time in years.  As always, I've ta...

Sad news: Allan Kornblum, whom many of us knew as the presiding genius of Coffee House Press, has died.  I heard the news from Michael Cof...

John Berryman's centenary is just a few weeks behind us, and it has occasioned a renewal of interest in this troubled, troubling, and...

I know, I know.  You're exhausted because you piled into your VW microbus and followed my motorcade earlier this year as it shuttled...

Fame-addled rogue and liar Edward John Trelawny was by no means a reliable source of information on the Romantic poets on whom he inflic...

The composer Richard Strauss is often seen as a bridge figure, someone whose career takes us from the world of nineteenth century bourge...

Did I mention I'll be the final judge for the Great Lakes Poetry Prize?  The winner receives $500, and there are prizes for runners ...

"Springtime for Hitler," from The Producers Hooray!  After much delay, it looks like the new issue of The Battersea Review  ...

This just in from my pal Lucas Klein, who is on the scene in Hong Kong where people are in the streets in vast numbers protesting for de...