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Avoiding media and the internet and finding refuge in Conversations with Goethe.
It’s my summer almanac.
My wife won’t stop slandering every type of human she can think of. Can I give her a slur?
Flushing, Marathon Park, College Point, and more.
37 people have died in eastern Kentucky floods as of Saturday, and 400 people are displaced. Where's the government relief?
What’s worse: no punchline or a predictable one?
Literature mystifies, while philosophy clarifies.
When Father rose from his recliner...
Monica gets a visit from one of her old paramilitary friends.
Lit off down Court St. through Downtown Brooklyn, sight of many memorable firsts.
Now I reside in the rural countryside, no need to fit in around nature. The trees don’t care.
Remembering an old friend and trying to remember that last conversation.
What can we do to make posterity happy?
In any short life, there's little wiggle room for total freedom.
San Pedro has a reputation for haunted houses.
A brief look at crap's representation in film and literature.
I floated on my back allowing my limbs to regain strength.
Observing youth compete in academic subjects.
Sometimes it feels we've made progress. Other times it’s like we're re-running the same conflicts and arguments over and over.
Seize the day, my bony ass!
From here on in, Old Muskrat was his brand!
A new book-length poem by Raymond Cummings.
The author talks about her latest novel on Poured Over.
A three-part interview with the late artist from less than two years ago.
Half an hour with one of the eminent philosophers of the twentieth century.
Half an hour with the author of Chilly Scenes of Winter and many more.
The late writer spoke with Richard Dawkins in October 2011, just two months before his untimely death.
Karr talks to the author of Bunny about her most recent novel, All's Well.
"Writing is like cultivating parasites in your brain."
The author discusses his first novel with The Paris Review.