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But It’s Not Elves Exactly

Michael Robbins — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:37:39 +0000

The only poem here that isn’t outright gawd-awful is Tomaž Šalamun’s, largely because it begins, “Yep. There was a wall.” The others trip over one another en route to piety.

Reading Comics, Avoiding Grading

Michael Robbins — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:48 +0000

I just realized what a problem it could be if the Flash were a somnambulist.

Guest Post: Steven on Pizza

Joshua Baldwin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:29:32 +0000

My 23-year-old cousin from Manhattan, Steven, recently visited me in Brooklyn, and he emailed me this review of a pizza place near my apartment (you’ll understand we visited several of the local joints that day). I thought, Steven, you’ve done…

Tea Leaves

Michael Robbins — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:25:57 +0000

“I’m dressed as Nancy Pelosi burning in hell. So I have a suit on that’s singed and covered in blood, and I have chains on, and I had dead babies draped from me. If Nancy Pelosi doesn’t repent, and we…

Goldman Wins Everything, Blames Jesus

Robert P. Baird — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:06:43 +0000

From the Financial Times: Goldman Sachs traders recorded only one daily loss in the third quarter, highlighting the trading bonanza that is sweeping Wall Street as central banks continue to pump billions of dollars into the financial system. … Goldman made more than…

Advertisements for Myself: Cultural Society

Robert P. Baird — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:55 +0000

When it rains, it pours. My poem “Carrara” is up at The Cultural Society. Check it out…

What He Said

Robert P. Baird — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:46:48 +0000

I’ve been marinating a post on Ron Rosenbaum’s latest cri de craphole at Slate, wondering if it was really worth the effort to attack an article that manages to be ignorant about nearly every subject it touches. I was glad, then,…

This Just In: Heidegger Was a Nazi!

Michael Robbins — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:47:05 +0000

Who knew? Both Carlin Romano & Ron Rosenbaum have contributed heavy-breathing paeans to a very shabby new book by Emmanuel Faye with the understated title Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy. Faye has nothing new to say, but that isn’t really…

Novel Chess: The Future of Literary Criticism

Robert P. Baird — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:16:28 +0000

From D. Graham Burnett and W.J. Walter at Cabinet one of the coolest computer-lit ideas since Gnoetry: Stimulated by [Primo] Levi’s juxtaposition, and motivated by the possibilities of extending an Oulipian sensibility into the sphere of literary criticism (OuCriPo?), the authors set out…

Advertisements for Myself: MM&M at Bookforum

Robert P. Baird — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:00:09 +0000

My review of Elizabeth Benedict’s new anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters is up at Bookforum’s website. Check it out…