Author: Cliff

>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…

>I’ve tried to do this for myself, creating a list of literary journals and then ranking them by various criteria–payment, circulation, reputation–and then putting…

>The current issue of Fugue contains an interesting interview with Margot Livesey. ML: “I aspire to write every day. In my ideal life I…

>Arthur Miller was a giant. Sitting on my desk, under an enormous paper weight, is his story Beavers, torn from the current (February 2005)…

> by Wang Wei The pristine mountain has not seen man, Has only heard the sound of his voice; Return to nature and enter…