Dreamers Rise

Dalkey Archive Press / Deep Vellum Publishing is re-issuing seven books by Harry Mathews, according to Publishers Weekly , which notes that...

Thomas Pynchon: They took the North Spooner exit and got on River Drive. Once past the lights of Vineland, the river took back its older f...

The neighborhood where I grew up was built on a hill overlooking a small artificial lake, and at the summit of the hill, tucked into the woo...

There's a curious disclaimer on the copyright page of the Dalkey Archive Press reprint of Vincent O. Carter's book about his experie...

It's a fool's errand to try to be succinct about Vargas Llosa, who died on Sunday. Does one talk about the "giant" of lite...

For the last week or so I've been revisiting Lillebjørn Nilsen and Andy Irvine's Live in Telemark CD, which I bought soon after it ...

There is now a website ( link here ) dedicated to the life and work of Guy Fleming, the artist and book designer responsible for, among othe...

I'm sure an oceanographer or geologist who had thought about the matter could come up with an explanation for why most of the stones on...

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the artist and author Edward Gorey. As it happens, I can pinpoint my first encount...

The subject of my last post led me to anthropolgist Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence's 1997 book Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to S...

Ideally I should have posted this on St. Stephen's Day (December 26th according to the Western Christian calendar), but the elements did...

Moving to Maine has meant, among many other things, crossing into the range of the North American porcupine. We didn't see much of them ...

On a dreary afternoon, Harriet Carker pauses from her needlework to gaze at the scene outside her window. She often looked with compassion, ...

(Since a certain public figure is distasteful to me, I refuse to refer to him by name. We all know who "he" is.) Do something he ...

Michael Leddy of Orange Crate Art has asked about the words "class card" in the Arthur Crudup recording embedded in my last post ...

Anthony J. Martin, from the author's website : Burrows are a refuge from predators, a safe home for raising young, or a tool to ambu...

Libros del Asteroide in Barcelona has released the seventh in a series of slim, elegant volumes by the writer Eduardo Halfon. Like the other...

According to the art historian Theodore E. Stebbins, the American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) devoted more than 120 canvases to...

From A Marsh Island: It was a famous day for crows: from one field after another a flight of them took heavily to their wings, and, as if un...

Since I have no billion-dollar media empire to protect, and since hardly anyone listens to me anyway, I have no hesitation in endorsing Kam...