Clegg has made relapse the subject and not recovery the subject. That self-proclaimed emphasis is this book’s great strength because the question posed from the very beginning of whether or not he’s going to do crack again or drink again is never really answered. In a large way, this is a book about not finding the answer, when most memoirs are poised to do the exact opposite... Read More
That a renowned editor and chief at a famous publishing house (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar Strauss & Giroux) should come out...
Stephen Sondheim has a genius for remembering in painstaking detail the story of his own life. The subtle nuances of a particular memory are fully realized here with astonishing clarity... Read More
Can something true but unbearable happen out of the sense of wonder? Is one addicted to the gaze that follows...
“What I write is much more interesting than I am.” If Edward Albee had taken Fran Leibovitz’s advice (Why would...
There’s this theory that activist and writer Eve Ensler and I talk about from time to time about people who...
More than anything lost, there’s a great and somewhat sad generosity in Tony Leuzzi’s second book of poems, Radiant Losses....
The poems that Brian Teare writes always seem restless with language itself: the words to say what as much as...
For Sondheim lovers—and like recovering alcoholics, we are legion—Finishing the Hat (Knopf) is far and beyond the most adroit and...
