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Infinite Books: The Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
I don’t remember where I first came across Jack Gilbert’s work, but I do know I was the student who checked both his Views of Jeopardy and Monolithos out from the Virginia Tech library for months on end. I also…
A Brief Interview with Tupelo Hassman
Tupelo Hassman‘s girlchild was released just less than a month back and got a fantastic review right out the gates in the NYTimes by the great Megan Mayhew Bergman. What I can tell you about girlchild is this: I spent…
Infinite Book
If you’re lucky you’ve been ushered into reading by someone at some point. If you love books at all, there’s a very very good chance that someone has helped you love them—someone who opened…
Doubling Down: an interview with John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
I’ve spent plenty of time and energy here already praising The Lifespan of a Fact, the strange and mesmerizing book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, and tempting as it is to keep shouting about the thing, I’ll back off…
Missing the Point
I’ll admit at the outset to some frustration. I like John D’Agata’s work quite a lot. I liked Halls of Fame, I really liked About a Mountain, I think the two anthologies he’s edited are among the most crucial +…
