13 May 2012 I’ll be spending the next month at an artists’ colony – four much-needed weeks in the woods, mostly off-the-grid, before teaching again in July. So: I’ll see you a...
2 May 2012 At The Millions today, this month’s Post-40 Bloomer, poet Spencer Reece. (Actually, this is April’s feature, but it took me longer than I’d expected to write, so it’...
29 April 2012 Classes ended last Thursday, a week full of evening events, and now… it’s taking some time to “come down.” Shifting gears from teaching to writing — from t...
24 April 2012 The Polish edition of Long for This World. Anyone happen to read Polish?
23 April 2012 Lots of good stuff going on this week in NYC, wish I could get to all of it: First Person Plural: new reading series in Harlem, at Shrine World Music, 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, 7pm...
21 April 2012 A lot’s been happening in the publishing world, it seems — with the DOJ going after Apple and the corporate conglomerates over e-book price points and whatnot. It occurs to ...
9 April 2012 That’s right, not a typo, post NINETY. Thanks to Nick at The Millions for alerting me to this: 96-year-old novelist Herman Wouk has sold his latest novel to Simon & Schuster. T...
9 April 2012 This is old news now, but I was reminded of it when dining with a friend last night and singing the praises of our favorite roasted vegetables (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower)&#...
30 March 2012 I enjoyed Elaine Blair‘s review of Michel Houllebecq‘s most recent novel, The Map and the Territory in the NY Review of Books. It was one of those reviews that I suspected ...
7 March 2012 Harriet Doerr, author of the National Book Award winning novel Stones for Ibarra, published that beautiful novel – her first – at the age of 74 (she also went back to college...
5 March 2012 I’ve seen it three times now — once on the big screen, once on my laptop, and once in a classroom with 15 undergraduate students (a seminar on literature of childhood). It h...
1 March 2012 The very smart and thoughtful Lisa Peet of Like Fire tells us a happy-ending story (boy, don’t we need it?) about late-bloomer Walker Percy, over at The Millions. On writing The M...
23 February 2012 Suppose that the world’s author put the case to you before creation, saying: “I am going to make a world not certan to be saved, a world the perfection of which shall be ...
14 February 2012 I’m awfully glad to hear that Carrie Tiffany has a new novel out! (I wrote about her first novel Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, at The Second Pass, a couple ye...
9 February 2012 So I am teaching myself to knit. In this picture are three swatches — practice pieces for three different kinds of stitches. Hoorah! I can do three different kinds of stitches...
30 January 2012 This month, my Post-40′s Bloomers column at The Millions features Daniel Orozco, whose story collection Orientation will (in my humble opinion) both engage and inspire you. Tagg...
…I’ve been thinking about you. And I admit it bums me out that — after such an intense and real togetherness that we all shared, hope and change, etc — you gave up on Presiden...
21 January 2012 An exhibit at Tibor deNagy of Elizabeth Bishop‘s art — both her original art and art she collected — reminds me that the creative process is constant. Writing, pain...
16 January 2012 I worked through most of MLK day, but I did enjoy wandering the Studio Museum of Harlem for an hour or so. It’s a privilege to live in this neighborhood, to partake in its cult...
14 January 2012 Thanks, Lisa Peet at Like Fire, for alerting us to The Next Best Book Blog — a site devoted to highlighting and reviewing the best books published by indie presses. Woot woot! ...
11 January 2012 Two things: an essay and a blog post. My essay on James Salter, “In the Light Where Art and Longing Meet: My Day With James Salter,” is in the current print issue of Tin H...
10 January 2011 We’ve been obsessed with the Republican primaries and debates here. I suppose that means I’m not as cynical as I thought I was; I keep looking for candidates to break th...
4 January 2012 Mark Haddon‘s new novel, The Red House, will be out in June. I wrote a brief blurb about it for The Millions‘ “Big Preview,” i.e. our most-anticipated-2012-rel...
2 January 2012 In contrast to a barrage of “man of the year” talk surrounding the late Steve Jobs, Sue Halpern offers a counter-view at the New York Review of Books — of a “re...
1 January 2012 Happy 2012, one and all. Quote for the year: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Tancredi says this to his uncle in The Leopard. We understand th...
30 December 2011 My piece on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa‘s The Leopard is up today at The Millions. I found it surprisingly difficult to write. I suppose that when a book strikes you dumb, whe...
26 December 2011 Phew — made it. Every year, during the month that starts at Thanksgiving and ends after Christmas, I feel like an undersized running back at the two yard line (deep in my own t...
15 December 2011 Can I just say how much I love the siesta concept, here in Latin America (and many places around the world)? I’m using mine to catch up on… well, to catch up on everythin...
2 December 2011 The annual YEAR IN READING extravaganza is on at The Millions. See what writers have been reading (and loving) this year. Up today, Jennifer Egan and Ben Marcus.
1 December 2011 Lisa Peet, whose blog Like Fireyou should add to our blog feed, contributes to our “Post-40 Bloomers” series at The Millions with a terrific piece on Isak Dinesen. Tagged:...
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