“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Jill Ciment
05.20.1955 - PresentNovelist and Memoirist. Winner of a slew of prizes and awards including: National Endowment for the Arts, a NEA Japan Fellowship Prize, two New York State Fellowships for the Arts, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Professor at the University of Florida. Canadian by birth; probably pretty funny and/or polite.
"The news media seems to be our twenty-first century version of th enineteenth-century village gossip. Rumor and speculation have always been the secret pleasure of the novel."
- Jill Ciment
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