“all day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.” -Rumi The summer that...
We are what we read, and, arguably, we are how we write.
This semester in all of my seven—yes, seven (yes, ah, “adjuncting”)—undergraduate courses I am requiring that students do a fair amount of in-class writing assignments—all handwritten. Why? Because the mind, I think, functions differently writing by hand as opposed to typing. Read More
This week, a new column from writer TT Jax.
"Special Topics" is an exploration of the "freakish, weird, queer, othered, excised, and inimitably special" in LGBT literature. Read More
[....]Any literature that cares to address the queer desire to marry among gay men and women will have a lot on its shoulders, maybe even more than literature about AIDS ever did. Read More
Every editor has a stack of boxes somewhere in her home: extra copies of the current issue of the journal...
The recent death from cancer of David Rakoff, the author of three acclaimed collections of essays, is a huge loss...
"Gore Vidal was entertaining but he was also, like Larry Kramer, challenging. He was fearless, fiercely intelligent, and well spoken. I can’t imagine him ever losing an argument or breaking a sweat. But he was homework, and people don’t like homework." Read More
Good writers often make good conversationlists. That seemed to be the case when we brought the two award winning writers Jenifer Levin and David Pratt together for a free-ranging conversation. Read More
“The point, I think, isn’t the quality of the advice, which can never be taken in by its alleged recipient, but how...
Reading exactly 95 of the Modern Library’s 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century is a project I’ve often...
