Author: Cliff

March 20, 2005

>More on the Virginia Festival of the Book

>Although the New Stories from the South panel was excellent, it was tucked into a corner of the Barnes & Noble and so it…
March 19, 2005

>Taming of the Shrew

>There’s small choice in rotten apples. True enough, but it’s just about the only memorable line from a very funny play. I went last…
March 19, 2005

>Writing Short Stories

>The second panel I attended at Virginia Festival of the Book was on Writing Short Stories. One of the readers was my friend from…
March 19, 2005

>New Stories from the South 2004

>Today was the only day I’m going to get to this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book, but the two panels I attended were…
March 16, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (cont’d–Part I.3)

>3Against the amber of the observation car lampsspeeding through the Ozark night, lunar moths feed. Brandy is being served. Lucius Beebehas just finished his…
March 16, 2005

>Wolfowitz Will Ruin the World Bank

>Of all the idiotic things Bush has done, this is right up there. It proves, beyond a doubt, that he is ignorant and does…
March 12, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (cont’d)

>2My father had the mild manner of a floristHe wore a single-breasted dark-blueserge suit closely buttonedtrousers without cuffs and F.W. Woolworth stockingsconcealed under high…
March 11, 2005

>Bono for World Bank President?

>It is doubtful that many people in this country are paying attention to the almost daily rumors being circulated by the Bush administration about…
March 9, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train

>by Robert Nichols [Bob Nichols, Grace Paley’s husband, published his first book of poetry in 1962 through Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books. I just managed…
March 7, 2005

>Interview with Barry Hannah

>The best thing in the current issue of The Paris Review is the interview with Barry Hannah. For an excerpt, click here. There are…