Annotations , my first book, appeared 23 years ago, when New Directions published it in the fall of 1995. In the intervening years, the b...

A million congratulations to my Rutgers-Newark colleague Tayari Jones , on the publication of her new, fourth novel, An American Marriag...

In 1973, Doubleday published  Kenward Elmslie 's  (1929-) experimental, poetic prose collection The Orchid Stories. It is almost impos...

Harper Lee and her novel cover for Go Set a Watchman (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images. Courtesy of VICE & HarperCollins) A...

Below are few photos from last night's Nightboat Books  new publications launch at Callicoon Fine Arts  on the Lower East Side. Many t...

As part of my preparatory remarks before my reading at Naropa University , I noted a "horrible" conference I'd attended only ...

THE NEXT BIG THING Thank you to poet and lovely person Sheila Maldonado , for tagging me for this. I usually eschew posts of this sort,...

Some people have too much money handy. What am I talking about? Baz Luhrman 's initial trailer for his version of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Once upon a time, when I was younger, and certain writers published new books, if I could afford to, I would rush to the nearest books...

After finishing marking up the 102nd page of one my undergraduate students' independent study projects today (I have one more undergradu...