Warsaw Dispatch: On Dinner with Jimmy Page
“How are you?” in Warsaw does not result in an obligatory “Very well, thanks. And you?”
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Warsaw Dispatch: Success, an Experiment
Today, I read yet another piece that equates success with early rising.
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Warsaw Dispatch: Cultivating an Aesthetic Present
Back “home,” I eat with objects layered with a history, of which I am acutely aware—Mother’s and Grandmother’s dishes, a southern heritage of cast iron cooking, an antique dining table passed down. A meal is always, even if I would choose otherwise, a journey back.
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Warsaw Dispatch: What’s In a Joke?
Anti-Polish sentiment is so pervasive that even Poles I meet in Warsaw often ask me, somewhat suspiciously—perhaps rightly so—and somewhat incredulously—the part that troubles me—why I came here.
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Warsaw Dispatch: Where Benches Play Chopin
To travel in linguistic isolation is not to live between cultures but to live in parallel to the current culture as an observer and sometimes a participant whose actions are determined and informed by wholly foreign terms.
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Integrating Black & White, Chipping Away at Unproductive Scapegoatery
Tonight in Wilcox County, Georgia, the “white” prom, a private party sponsored for high school students by parents, goes on as planned and as it has since the schools were integrated thirty years ago.
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A Summer (or Fall) Reading List from Us to You
As the season moves toward a time when it’s cozy to cuddle up with a good book without the burden of a wandering eye begging you to head outside for summer fun, we hope you’ll make time for reading for fun. Our suggestions follow, and we hope that you’ll share your own summer/fall reading list with us (whether it’s actual or aspirational).
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MQR at AWP 2012
And … we’re off. To Chicago. Along with at least 9,300 of our dearest friends aka readers and writers.
Transitioning the Great Sadness
I have been reading Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics at a speed that indicates I must be reading dot by dot.
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Things You Can Do
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, “things you can do” books were sprouting like weeds.