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A Holographic Information Age
The other day I was doing some research on the bankruptcy of Borders. Most of what I found was the same string of repeated facts: they had poor management, they couldn’t compete with Amazon, their...
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I Wouldn’t Be I
For me, the experience of poetry has most often been a painful one. Reading poetry is usually like trying to catch a butterfly—I’m running and leaping and stretching with all I have, trying to get that...
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Philip Levine’s What Work Is
“Evil has become a product of manufacture, it is built into our whole industrial and political system, it is being manufactured every day, it is rolling off the assembly line, it is being sold in the...
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There and Back Again: An Author’s Tale
Try, for a moment, to imagine a world without J.R.R. Tolkien. There would be no Frodo, no Shire, no Gandalf. But what else would disappear without this author? By my thinking, if Tolkien goes, so goes...
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Shaking Talks to Marion Winik
While visiting York College of Pennsylvania to give a reading, Marion took the time to sit down with me and answer some questions. In a closet. I’m kidding, of course, but only barely. The room in...
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