
Jack Gilbert, 1925 - 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...
November 14th, 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...
November 14th, 2012

L.A. is where I come back to when women divorce me.
November 21st, 2012
A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012

On "Deenie," "Tiger Eyes," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"
November 27th, 2012
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More


"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More