JOAN DIDION: Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Those four short lines, read there by ...
In the 37 years that I knew my grandmother, I could count on one hand the number of times I saw her without her makeup on. Celebrated for her beauty in her teenage years and beyond, my grandma took ...
About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work. “Action movies are man ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Zell Visiting Writer Christina Sharpe reads from her book, “Ordinary Notes,” in the UMMA Stern ...
MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the poetic rhythms and patterns of sounds as they occur in a poetic line, but prosodic ...