Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg 1956 My favorite postcard of all time.I think I bought it when I was about eighteen or nineteen, as a sensitive young gayboy in San Diego. Peter Orlovsky (on the right) was incredibly beautiful and also a writer, but definitely inspired some incredible poems by Ginsberg, his partner of 30 [...]
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Peter Orlovsky, 1933-2010
May 31, 2010
“I’m only interested in surviving the draft”– Ron Carlson
April 27, 2010
It’s been over a week, sorry, since my last post. Lots going on– school is coming to a close– I finish teaching the last week of May. I cannot wait. I’ve rented an office with a co-worker of mine–it’s beautiful, pics to come! So I plan on spending my summer writing–especially since I have literally [...]
A Sudden Country
March 29, 2010
Reading the book A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher; she’s one of the featured writers at Fishtrap, where I won a fellowship for July so I thought I’d better read her book. It’s won or been nominated for a slew of awards and it turns out I remember this book being reviewed in Entertainment Weekly [...]
Marginalia
February 27, 2010
Marginalia mar·gi·na·lia Pronunciation: \ˌmär-jə-ˈnā-lē-ə\ Function: noun plural Etymology: New Latin, from Medieval Latin, neuter plural of marginalis Date: 1832 1 : marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book) 2 : nonessential items <the meat and marginalia of American politics — Saturday Review> <–I discovered this fascinating artist, Ira Joel Haber, online and this is [...]
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
December 10, 2009
Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight. It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency? [...]
Wisteria Lane
April 17, 2009
How is it that Billy Collins always knows just what to say to make me smile? (from The Writer’s Almanac, April 17, 2009). Field Guide by Billy Collins No one I ask knows the name of the flower we pulled the car to the side of the road to pick and that I point to [...]
Human beings just got to tell stories
April 12, 2009
Back from Utah. What a glorious trip! This is my third (fourth?) trip to St. George, Utah for work on my book but this time I really felt a much stronger sense of place–which I hope (no, I believe) I can convey in the book. Some days I just sat outside in the red rock [...]
What is Multi-Textual? And does it work?
March 7, 2009
I’m trying to get caught up on my New Yorkers. Did you read the profile of Ian McEwan from the Feb. 23 issue (which, by the way, had that hilarous and grotesque cover with A Rod)? Daniel Zalewski’s profile of the Atonement author (read it here) is so compelling, so readable, and SO long. I [...]
Colson Whitehead in last week’s New Yorker
January 10, 2009
Why don’t I read more Colson Whitehead? He’s one of those writers whose books are on my shelf or nightstand and i’ve said– “I’m going to read that one next…” –and then I don’t. Shortly after I moved to NYC, in 1999, his first book, The Intuitionist, came out and I was told by many [...]
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