baffled

Came via the Book Bench to a piece on Publishers Weekly by a book addict, a man who habitually goes to bookstores with no particular book i...

friends in strange places

I went into Niedrige Preise to look at cacti.  The security guard greeted me like a long-lost friend - Wie geht's? he asked, beaming, an...

Jane Dark goes dark

Andrew Gelman followed the link on the blogroll to Joshua Clover's site and found that it had been taken over.  (And all this time the ...

Got an e-mail from a friend who had listened to the podcast with my sister.  He said she laughed and said it was 'just like Helen'. ...

bookses

 Piece in the Guardian on Zero Books, with interviews of many of its authors . . . SS: What was the background to your involvement in Zer0? ...

podcast

InDefinite Podcast has published a podcast of me reading from Lightning Rods.  I am not necessarily endorsing or advocating, but it's he...

corruption in a minor key

1. If you teach, and select texts for your courses on the basis of which poets (not poetry) you like personally, or owe a favor to, or are ...

infra dig

I recently read a discussion between Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer in the Guardian (they were talking about their new edition of...

the Maginot Line

Our friends at Wikipedia remind you of what you once knew about the Maginot Line: The Maginot Line ( French : Ligne Maginot , IPA:  [liɲ ma...

erschöpft

Elena, the Russian poet I stayed with in Paris, came to Berlin for a couple of days. She stayed one night in the room with the sofa futon an...

my poor head

While I was in New York I went to a film screening at the apartment of my agent, Edward Orloff. I did not really want to go but I thought I ...

Another basic difference between the compositional technique of Liszt and Chopin was observed long ago by Donald Francis Tovey, and Feux Fo...

ggplot

Was watching a YouTube video on time series in ggplot2, moved on to another YouTube video on ggplot which turned out to be in Brazilian Port...