Monthly Archives: May 2010
I am blogging regularly now at We Who Are About To Die.
It’s been about a month, so I suppose I should tell readers of this site that I joined a group blog called We Who Are About To Die. A bunch of fine people are involved. I’ll keep posting personal stuff … Continue reading
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I prank-called the Iowa MFA program to ask about writing lyric essays, and got put on hold. Take a listen.
It was just a pre-made recording, but it seems using a robotic voice gets you by when you talk about lyric essays. UPDATE: I did a much better job on this call. Check it out.
Filed under Fun with Audio
I prank-called the Poetry Society of America, rather lamely. Here is the result.
Filed under Fun with Audio
From the Paris Review: Cynthia Ozick on self-belief, which ends with the word “meshuggener.”
INTERVIEWER What sustained you without publication during that period? OZICK Belief. Not precisely self-belief, because that faltered profoundly again and again. Belief in Art, in Literature: I was a worshipper of Literature. I had a youthful arrogance about my “powers,” … Continue reading
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