Dreamers Rise

Van Wyck Brooks: He had a painter's delight in tone. He liked to throw a ghostly glimmer over scenes that he chose b...

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. We found the Thoreau family plot first, and thought that maybe the offerings of writing im...

Three people I used to know fairly well at various times in my life have died this year. One was a childhood friend I hadn't seen since ...

The Czech writer Ivan Klíma has died; the New York Times has a full obit . Klíma has long been a favorite writer of mine, and I revisited a...

A few weeks back Michael Leddy at Orange Crate Art posted a passage from Henry Mayhew's The Great World of London in which Mayhew desc...

When I was out walking yesterday morning in one of my regular haunts, keeping an eye out for the deer and rabbits I often see if I arrive...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: One afternoon, he was seized with an irresistible desire to blow soap-bubbles; an amusement, as Hepzibah told Ph...

Amy Liptrot: I never saw myself as, and resist becoming, the wholesome ‘outdoors’ type. But the things I experience keep dragging me in. T...

The founder and former publisher of Black Sparrow Press, John Martin, has died. The Times has a nice obit by Adam Nossiter, who can be forg...

At first glance this is a typical example of the kind of cheap fiction for adolescents that was popular in the early decades of the twentiet...

Celia Thaxter: Boone Island is the forlornest place that can be imagined. The Isles of Shoals, barren as they are, seem like Gardens of Ed...

A cronopio out for a drive spies a cardboard box at the side of the road marked FREE. He stops and investigates. Inside the box are some pot...

A few scenes from today's well-attended and upbeat demonstration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which merged amicably with a scheduled s...

Someone directed my attention today to this recording from a few years back, which had somehow escaped my notice. Human Geography US presen...

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 ...