Author: Cliff

>The piece in The New Yorker (April 25, 2005) by Philip Roth, including a long recollection by Saul Bellow about some of his early…

>It’s a stupid show, okay. No one disputes that. It’s by Mel Brooks, so what did anyone expect? It’s hilarious and fun and musical…

>II. A Long Stop-over on the Far Side of Ashtabula 1.Billing Mont. In a room in the Stillwater Hotelfor some months. Little change in…

>. . . and the white. 

>The crimson petals . . . 

>This is inspired by Kat’s post about her walk (Illuminate). I’ve been unhappy with the progress on my novel revisions, which means I’ve been…

>This book length essay, written in the early fifties but not published until after Algren’s death, is a passionate plea for relevance. It was…

>I have about 3,000 books. I’m certain of that because I entered them all into a database. What I’m less certain of is the…

> Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.An elegant speaker, you can converse well…

>Amazon.com was pushing this on me for months before the book was actually published, no doubt because its robots recognized part of my shipping…