The late Clive James, from his final book The Fire of Joy, out tomorrow: My understanding of what a poem + more
The late Clive James, from his final book The Fire of Joy, out tomorrow: My understanding of what a poem + more
I feel much the same about presidential debates as I do golf: It’s time that I’ll never, ever get back. + more
As the decades have come and gone, I’ve had my hands on a majority of the projects that have passed + more
Big day today, everyone—big day: “A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of + more
Today is the first day of autumn. Or, as I like to refer to it, that day in September when + more
If Al Franken drawing a map of the United States from memory can’t bring us all together as a nation, + more
“The old man the boats.” “The prime number few.” “Fat people eat accumulates.” There’s a clever linguistic term for these + more
Shot: “I sometimes wonder if there have not been two great disasters in the history of modern letters: the first when + more
I may have mentioned that I’m reading my way through The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro’s (currently) four-volume biography + more
According to Open Culture, Ursula K. Le Guin had the best work schedule: I don’t know the degree to which + more
Speaking of music (see yesterday’s post for some of the year’s notable recordings), winners of the 2019–20 Ernst Bacon Memorial + more
I think we can all agree that, by and large, 2020 has sucked wet dog fur. BUT. There’s been some + more
“Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s + more
“Rather than a neat evolutionary line,” writes Florence Hazrat, “imagine punctuation developing as a rhizome, a horizontal mesh of practices, + more