imperceptibly, the gray skies of winter have overtaken minnesota the past week or two. there have not been many sunny moments. even when the sun has been out, it’s so far off and alien that it might as well be cloudy. on sunday i was writing and i wanted to accurately describe the cloudy winter [...]
On our last night in Russia, Swenson and I decide to fish after dinner, in the haunting gray gloaming of the late Arctic summer, and we hike a few miles upstream, then hopscotch our way down, fishing each pool with intensity. At midnight, I stop at Peter’s Pocket, a small pool boxed in a canyon [...]
sam shepard has a new play off-broadway, the god of hell, and is also acting for the first time since starring alongside patti smith in his own play, cowboy mouth, in 1971. although acting and actors have occasionally fascinated me, writing and writers are far more immediate, so i’ll ignore the parts of this village [...]
i’m on a paris review kick. when george plimpton, the heroic founder and longtime editor of that fine publication (hell, they were the first ones to publish kerouac!), died last year, lewis lapham introduced me to the great soul in his editor’s note of the december 2003 issue of harper’s. the whole thing is worth [...]
yes, the dna of literature project over at the paris review is off the ground. i was way off last week when i said i thought jack was interviewed in the 50s. he wasn’t interviewed until 1968 which means that not only will his interview not be released until january, but also that the jack [...]
i’m a firm believer in knowing your roots. as such, i am indescribably excited that the paris review is preparing to launch all of it’s “writers at work” interviews online in just a few short days.
The Paris Review has interviewed almost 300 authors whose work has defined the literary landscape of latter half of the [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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