I was not the only Irishman on the SS Arizona, as we moored outside New York harbor, but I certainly wore the finest ankle-length otter-lined… Read More »The Roaring Ocean Does Not Roar
by James Warner
What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this… Read More »What We Are Doing
“I have tried to disregard as much as possible the history of literature. When my students asked me for a bibilography, I told them, ‘A… Read More »Borges on Criticism & Compulsory Happiness
I have read almost all of Croce, and though I am not always in agreement with him, I am enchanted by him. Enchantment, as Stevenson… Read More »Borges on enchantment
The first time I visited Latvia, my parents took me to Ventspils to see the city where my father had spent his teen years, just… Read More »Letter from Latvia
by Zinta Aistars
In 2005, Michelle Richmond conducted this interview with Kate Braverman. Topics discussed: Braverman’s long career, experimentation in writing, book autopsies, San Francisco writers, revision, writing about climate, live audiences,… Read More »10 Questions: an interview with Kate Braverman
cut glass by Franci Claudon When people came to the funeral, they came by foot. They came with plates of sweet pork and pound cake… Read More »How Fish Sleep
by Jane Wong
translated by Elizabeth Harris Behling editor’s note: Le stagioni di Giacomo (Giacomo’s Seasons) won the 1996 Grinzane Cavour Prize and has been translated into… Read More »Giacomo’s Seasons by Mario Rigoni Stern
She had beautiful furniture and a number of fancy rugs. There was a bed, of course, with several well-worn quilts, a large comforter, and hundreds… Read More »Mirceau Doviescue
photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Just as I’m filling my mother’s glass with more wine, she tells me she doesn’t love my father.… Read More »An American Story
by Kelly Lundgren Pietrucha