Author: Cliff

March 3, 2005

>Cliché

>One Day at a Time What goes around comes around.I made up that phrase this morning.Do you like it? Would you like to use…
March 3, 2005

>A Muse of Fire

>I attended a terrific panel discussion this evening, made all the more compelling by its location: Virginia Military Institute. The panel explored Poetry and…
March 2, 2005

>Aleksandar Hemon

>Yesterday, both the Northwestern Magazine (the alumni magazine of Northwestern Univeristy) and The New Yorker arrived in my mailbox. In the former was an…
February 27, 2005

>The Mired Earth

>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…
February 27, 2005

>Keeping Up

>Just when I thought I was getting a handle on things, a new round of literary magazines began to arrive. I have shelves of…
February 22, 2005

>Garstang the Gund Gorilla

>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….
February 21, 2005

>Not The Obituary Writer

>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,…
February 20, 2005

>Circularity

>For a graduate school seminar on James Joyce a long, long time ago, I wrote a paper about reflexivity in Ulysses. I had no…
February 18, 2005

>Virginia Festival of the Book

>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…