Thomas Israel Hopkins's Mimeograph 2.0 Paradigm!

I’ll be reading in two weeks at the Earshot reading series at Cafe Ludlow, Friday May 13. More info., here. ($6 admission, yes, but it gets you a free drink.)

Graduating NYU creative writing program MFA students reading, Thursday, 4/28, 7pm. 25 of us, 3 minutes each. Free and open to the public. More info., here.

The Met and elsewhere.

To my mention of Cynthia’s new Accidental Nostalgia album; it’s now available for purchase at Amazon.com, and at CD Baby. (Also, note to self: performing music in front of an audience, after not having done it in a while, is not like getting back up on a bicycle. Unless you’re getting on a bicycle with [...]

Going vertical.

The last couple times I’ve walked down Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, I’ve passed union organizers handing out leaflets in front of a grocery store, asking people not to shop there, as the employees, they say, are poorly paid. But I love what they shout at passers-by: “Boycott the Garden of Eden!” they holler, over [...]

The edges of things.

It is actually pleasant on such an evening [at a reception at Gerald Ford's White House] for a writer to pass half disembodied and unmolested by small talk from room to room, looking and listening. He knows that active public men can’t combine the duties of government with literature, art, and philosophy. Theirs is a [...]

…and possibly paraphrased slightly: A: Think about it! Fratricide, patricide, matricide. There is no word for a woman killing her sister. B: There’s also no word for a parent losing a child. There’s widow, widower, orphan… A: There really is no word for killing a woman. B: Maybe you should do your PhD thesis on [...]