What’s so beautiful about cellar door? These two little words have gotten a lot of attention from Donnie Darko, Dorothy Parker, and beyond. “If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than…
Mix Tape: Cellar Door
Maggie Smith
February 2, 2012
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Monoculture : : Poetry
Weston Cutter
January 31, 2012
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1) I’ll admit to having an overwhelming fondness for books on finance, and one of the big reasons for that is almost certainly because I read Lewis Hyde’s The Gift at an impressionable age and the thing’s shaped my thinking…
Short Takes: The Eleven (Self-Addressed) Commandments
Andrew David King
January 28, 2012
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“When you can’t create you can work.” “Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.” Some words of wisdom in the writing commandments of Henry Miller. Nabokov: “I’ve been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called ‘great…
The canon as home?
Hilary Plum
January 28, 2012
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Tim Parks has a new post on the New York Review of Books blog (discovered via) making an argument for the role of the literary canon—”not an argument for staying at home, but for having a home from which to…
Mix Tape: Cursed Poets
Maggie Smith
January 26, 2012
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What does it mean to “be a poet”? Philip Larkin “didn’t give readings or lectures, was never a poet-in-residence at a university, never taught, rarely gave interviews, generally stayed away from literary circles, stayed away from London, did not work…
