ON THE ROAD no longer holds the allure it once did.
As Charles de Saint Evremond writes in his Miscellaneous Essays (1692), “When a Man, intoxicated with reading, makes his first step in the World, ’tis usually a false one.”
Why Can’t We Have a Good Inaugural Poet Ever?
If poets are uncomfortable writing a poem to celebrate the president, why do we keep having someone come and read a poem written especially for the occasion?
I try to write things that are very readable. Anytime someone tells me they’ve stayed up all night and read my book, I feel like I’ve triumphed.
Both Flesh and Not – David Foster Wallace
Suddenly anything the author wrote, even lists of words he wanted to use but never got around to using, are fair game so long as the publisher makes a buck.
Exciting New Online Literary Magazines
With so many online literary magazines and journals, it can be hard to keep up with the newest and most exciting. Here is a guide to some new up and comers.
Being a writer is like being a cockroach — there’s a lot of competition, though one rarely sees a skinny cockroach.
No matter which airline I fly, I continue to cringe at the deliberately ominous abstraction of the announcement, “We’ll be on the ground shortly.”
Thanks, whiskey! Drinking music from Tex Ritter, Willie Dixon, Lotte Lenya, Eyehategod, Texas Top Hands, and The Pogues.
She turned into what? A pillar of salt?! Whoa. A father nearly killing his son, Isaac? Gadzooks!