Month: February 2005

>Snow at Folly Mills 

>I won’t dwell on the symbolism, but there’s a globe, bright blue and green, stuck in a backwater pool in my creek. I noticed…

>Just when I thought I was getting a handle on things, a new round of literary magazines began to arrive. I have shelves of…

>Garstang the Gund Gorilla? It isn’t a common name, to state the obvious. It is a surname, of English (but probably pre-Norman Scandinavian) origin….

>Someone (you know who you are) said I should post something about Hunter Thompson’s suicide. But I didn’t have anything to say about him,…

>For a graduate school seminar on James Joyce a long, long time ago, I wrote a paper about reflexivity in Ulysses. I had no…

>It’s almost that time again–the Virginia Festival of the Book is March 16-20 in Charlottesville. I’m planning to go to events on a couple…

>I really don’t want to use much of this space for political or social commentary, but since I raised the subject of Weekly Religious…

>In an obituary of Arthur Miller on February 11, Sheila Lennon of the Providence (R.I.) Journal writes:Arthur Miller, literary giant, Marilyn Monroe’s ex: Arthur…

>The Writer’s Chronicle, published by AWP, is a terrific magazine that usually has at least one outstanding craft article in each issue. The February…