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Hold the phone! Stop the presses! Put down that doughnut!  The new issue of the literary annual Plume  has arrived, with a list of contr...

Do you like Roland Barthes? Me, I'm a big fan, especially of his elegant little essay "The Death of the Author," which I...

Look out! The fifth issue of Lute and Drum  just hit the internet, and it's heavy with goodness.  It has new work by D.A. Powell, Mo...

The jets are waiting on the runways, the engines of the motorcade hum in readiness: the Kafka Sutra  world tour, 2016 edition, is about ...

The Western bourgeoisie has long known its rôle in art is to be abused by the avant-garde; however, groups outside this tradition or cla...

If, like me, you can’t pass a used bookshop without going in, to emerge at least an hour later with as many titles as you can carry ...

Hot news! Two of my favorite journals, the eminently respectable Boston Review  and the eminently raffish Toad Suck Review  have new ...

It's time for year-end lists, and the good people at Partisan  have not neglected to provide one.  Along with William Logan, A.E. St...

Hot news! The Amazon listing for my new book of poems and literary oddities, The Kafka Sutra  is now up and running.  Just in time for t...

Hot news! The glorious new issue of Prelude magazine is out in print and online.  It includes many fine things, (new work by Rae Armantr...

You're probably wondering how San Francisco streetcar consolidation in the 1890s helped make modernism happen, and speculating on ho...

Good news for those interested in the state of poetry criticism: there's a feature on that very topic just now available in the late...