Advice to Our Scottish Readers
Late last Tuesday night, a crowd gathered in an antique circus tent, in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, to shelter from the rain, drink whiskey, and hear readings by Paris Review contributor Donald...
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I’ve been reading a few things lately on the subject of walking, including treatments philosophical (Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Thoreau’s “Walking”), narrative (Walser’s The Walk, new...
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One-hundred-forty-character poets, channel you inner Bashō, O’Hara, and Williams and listen up! Immortality can be yours: the New York Public Library is sponsoring a Twitter poetry contest for National...
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Robert Seydel’s visionary, genre-defying art and writing. Untitled by Robert Seydel, n.d. © the Estate of Robert Seydel How are we to regard the artist who writes or the writer who makes art? There’s a...
View ArticleMy Younger Brother Spreads His Palms, Maple Leaves: Yukio Mishima’s Haiku
Yukio Mishima. Many are likely to be surprised to learn that Yukio Mishima—yes, the writer who chose to die by dazzlingly public disembowelment and decapitation in 1970—wrote haiku. When you think of...
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This is the second installment of a five-part series on the senses of dawn. Each piece (touch, sound, smell, taste, sight) will run at daybreak (EST) this week. Original illustration by Jackson Joyce...
View ArticleAdvice to Our Scottish Readers
Late last Tuesday night, a crowd gathered in an antique circus tent, in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, to shelter from the rain, drink whiskey, and hear readings by Paris Review contributor Donald...
View ArticleWalking While Reading
I’ve been reading a few things lately on the subject of walking, including treatments philosophical (Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Thoreau’s “Walking”), narrative (Walser’s The Walk, new...
View ArticleAll A-Twitter
One-hundred-forty-character poets, channel you inner Bashō, O’Hara, and Williams and listen up! Immortality can be yours: the New York Public Library is sponsoring a Twitter poetry contest for National...
View ArticleThe Lonely Art
Robert Seydel’s visionary, genre-defying art and writing. Untitled by Robert Seydel, n.d. © the Estate of Robert Seydel How are we to regard the artist who writes or the writer who makes art? There’s a...
View ArticleMy Younger Brother Spreads His Palms, Maple Leaves: Yukio Mishima’s Haiku
Yukio Mishima. Many are likely to be surprised to learn that Yukio Mishima—yes, the writer who chose to die by dazzlingly public disembowelment and decapitation in 1970—wrote haiku. When you think of...
View ArticleThe Sound of Dawn
This is the second installment of a five-part series on the senses of dawn. Each piece (touch, sound, smell, taste, sight) will run at daybreak (EST) this week. Original illustration by Jackson Joyce...
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