We should always be wary of posthumous publications, as it is likely the author held the work back for one reason or another. Seldom are things simply lost to time. But the hunger for more work from our departed authors of legend always overrules these reservations. The New Yorker has circulated, online on May 30 […]
On Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”: An Essay
November 24, 2015 by 1 Comment
Essay by Glynn Custred There are several ways a novel can become a bestseller. At one end of the scale are the author’s name recognition and heavy investment in an aggressive marketing campaign. At the other end is the widespread appeal of what the story has to say and how well it is said, expressing […]
Writing Without Fear: Poetic Language in Tim Peeler’s “Knuckle Bear”
September 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Essay by Patrick Bizzarro One of the most interesting features of Tim Peeler’s Knuckle Bear is the language spoken by the three characters who enact, through thought processes revealed in the poems they speak, the drama of their social relations. Here is an example of that language and the hierarchy of power it constructs in […]
Laughlin: Romanticist Extraordinaire, A Memoir
July 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
By Louis Gallo Laughlin, Ghosts Along the Mississippi: An essay in the poetic interpretation of Louisiana’s plantation archictecture—One hundred photographs by the author (Bonanza Books, NY—1961) —Clarence John Laughlin, Aperture Monograph (1973) I. I’ve never believed that literature is an ideal conduit for surrealism other than in spurts such as the “Nighttown” episode in Joyce’s […]