I May Be Some Time

I have just reread Jennifer Egan’s   The Candy House,  which came out last year .     The first time I read it I was much dazzled.     But t...

  I have a folder on my desktop labeled “Random” in which none of the documents were given titles and instead were automatically “titled” by...

I’ve heard it said that typing out a whole, admired, book is a good exercise for writers.     I’ve  never done it.     But I have typed out ...

You will all remember that my method here is to steal words from people much smarter than myself. Mary Ruefle remembers “a reading WS Merwin...

  I was born in Detroit and return to visit family once or twice a year.  Each visit I make the short pilgrimage to the Detroit Institute of...

In the late 1980s when I was graduate student at the University of Utah, Richard Howard visited for a whole semester.  As a fiction writer I...

  In “Annunciation,” ( The New Yorker , Feb 14 & 21, 2022) a new story by Lauren Groff, the main  character, young, impoverished, and re...