Nov 28, 2021The Best Newer Books I’ve Read — 2021Emerson says, Never read a book that is not a year old, so there are books here from previous years. Most of them were published by small presses. Also, it feels silly to only list books from a certain year — “as Borges has taught us, all the books in…6 min read
Nov 23, 2021For Feeling Bookish Podcast: Why I created the literary journal Socrates on the Beach — Small Press vs. Large PressNOTE: This was meant to be heard aloud and not read — it is here because of technical issues. The bend in the river in the present day state of the written word, between the large presses and the small presses has never been so pronounced as now. Of course…5 min read
Mar 3, 2021Excerpt from See What I See: “Does Eric Rohmer Have the All of Me?”I asked myself, Why does this tall but dead Frenchman fascinate me so? Maybe it’s the women in his films, maybe the men. Maybe it’s the women’s names put forth in the English titles of his first series of films, the Moral Tales — My Night at Maud’s, Claire’s Knee…Eric Rohmer3 min read
Jan 17, 2021Living in the First Paragraph of Henry James’s “The Story In It”Is it possible to live inside a paragraph? Even a first paragraph by itself, duly discarding the rest of the story? Henry James’s “The Story In It” is quite a quick tale for The Master — only seventeen Library of America pages, whereas his stories are twenty-eight or thirty on…7 min read
Dec 26, 2020The best newer books I’ve readEmerson says, Never read a book that is not a year old, so there are books here from previous years, but all of them were published by small presses. Points of Attack — Mark de Silva: Review — “[T]he desire to feel a certain way about oneself or the world…Books2 min read
Nov 9, 2020Review of Gary Lutz’s I Looked AliveReview of Gary Lutz’s I Looked Alive I Looked Alive By Gary Lutz. Brooklyn, NY: Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail, 2010. 190 pp. $17.00, paper. Gary Lutz chronicles the ever so common disjunctive American household with alliterative, vibrant sentences. The opening one of “People Shouldn’t Have to be the Ones to…6 min read
Published in Human Parts·May 20, 2015Why Does Internet Dating Often Fail?Diego Bonilla Internet dating is easy. Since life is usually hard, this should give one pause. One can set up as many dates as one desires. One needn’t speak words to a live person who may reject her. Anyone with a computer can do it — even a robot, who…Dating6 min read
