Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow is, for my money, one of maybe a dozen books released this year that someone could compellingly argue will be read in 50 years. I loved Harbach’s Fielding, and yes Didion’s Blue Nights and…
Thinking (about art and poetry), Fast and Slow
Weston Cutter
November 30, 2011
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Mix Tape: Feeling Thankful For…
Maggie Smith
November 29, 2011
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Poems, when they come, and for Ruth Stone, who once said, “Never keep a poem waiting; it might be a really good one, and if you don’t get it down it’s lost.” Turduckens of the literary variety. Paul Muldoon’s close…
Lindsay Turner’s Liner Notes to Shane McCrae’s Mule
Kascha Semonovitch
November 29, 2011
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In the next edition of the KROnline, Lindsay Turner reviews Shane McCrae’s Mule. You’ll be grateful for her commentary that, like liner notes or an opera libretto, elucidates this text; reading McCrae’s book can feel like silently following a musical…
Family Bibles
Jake Adam York
November 26, 2011
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On the family bookshelves now are hundreds of books—mostly my mom’s history texts (she taught history in high school for twenty years and then another ten in community colleges), a few novels, and some antique books. There aren’t many poetry…
A writer’s dictionary by Anne Germanacos
Hilary Plum
November 23, 2011
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According to the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Anne Germanacos’s In the Time of the Girls showcases a series of short stories in which the sharp glimmer of each tale’s tiny world suggests an entire universe of meaning… These brilliant sparks…
