Advertisements • How do you like them apples now? I hear The anthem being taken up. And yet The tune is faint and easy to forget If panic has not stuck it in your ear, Or drummed it down into your bones, or lodged It in the antechambers of your heart, Reminding you, should revolutionContinue reading “How ‘Bout Them Apples?”
Category Archives: Literature
Who Wants a Lover?
Advertisements • Who wants a lover this Valentine’s Day? Who wants a meaningless fling? Who wants a romance with no consequences, No major commitments, just minor offenses, No number, no text, and no ring? Who wants a lover this fourteenth of Feb? Who wants a roll in the hay? Who wants next morning toContinue reading “Who Wants a Lover?”
Clouds Over Troy
Advertisements Central Courtyard, University of Southern California. • this is hallowed knowledge: the shadow of the movement of heavenly bodies in the cool dry air— June gloom come early— illumination where no sun shines, the torch of kings to guide the steps of coming plebeians— sustenance for the humblest soul, noContinue reading “Clouds Over Troy”
A Summer So Long
Advertisements • As a seed in the bright-colored street I am saying so long To the I know of nothing, the nothing that knows not of me. On a high cushioned wingtip my bondage was loosed with a song Of seduction to come, a provoking, profane melody; The lean languid lusting of aimlessness, sloth, andContinue reading “A Summer So Long”
The Greeters
Advertisements A poem You’d think everybody’s eyes would be fixed up here, so far above the cataracts. But these two kids look just like they used to, and nobody calls them four eyes— they’re the cool ones who left the party early, before you could corner one of them and say hey, how does itContinue reading “The Greeters”
The Gospel According to Alexander
Advertisements In which I open a portal Hey all, It’s a busy couple weeks in my brain and body, so allow me to tide you over by dropping a link to a freshly published essay in the magazine of the Women Writing Berlin Lab, a local organization I’ve been privileged to work with since nearlyContinue reading “The Gospel According to Alexander”
Lit Review: ONE LAST STOP
Advertisements Or, won’t you come see me, Queen Jane? *WARNING: SPOILERS* I’d heard quite a bit about Casey McQuiston’s new novel, including an interview with McQuiston herself, by the time a college friend cosplayed on Instagram as pragmatic heroine (or heroic pragmatist) August Landry. Her personal endorsement tipped the scales from Hopeful Read into MustContinue reading “Lit Review: ONE LAST STOP”
Lit Review: POP SONG
Advertisements In which I jump on a brand-new book! “No one could have predicted Gigliotti would be drawn to a title like this,” alien scholars at the inter-terrestrial conference will quip years later, eliciting a chuckle from the panel crowd, after humanity is gone and the only remains of literature are this blog and aContinue reading “Lit Review: POP SONG”
Nothing Alike But Very Alike
Advertisements In which I really might take this analysis business too far Okay friends. I was listening to music this week—as, you know, I do—and something occurred to me that I think has something to it. Either that or it will evidence an overstimulated brain whose sleep schedule this week has been erratic. Maybe theContinue reading “Nothing Alike But Very Alike”
The Artist, Not the Art
Advertisements In which I reassert an opinion A short while ago I read a collection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the ones he sold to magazines to make extra money (read: stay afloat) between novels.“Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” etc. Most wereContinue reading “The Artist, Not the Art”