The young Hilda Hilst Over the last few months I participated in an online roundtable about Hilda Hilst , whose sublime and sublimely ...

Catching up here on the blog always feels possible at first thought, but by the time I sit down to begin a post, I realize I have something...

A few weeks back, I mentioned the imminent publication of The Obscene Madame D , the first published English translation of fiction by th...

Phyllis Diller (UPI) Shortly after my parents moved us from the city of St. Louis to the suburb of Webster Groves and we joined Holy...