Advice to the lovelorn?
“She had never been made love to after this fashion before. She knew, or half knew, that the man was a scheming hypocrite, craving her money, and following her in the hour of her troubles, because he might then have the best chance of success. She had no belief whatever in his love. And yet she liked it, and approved his proceedings. She liked lies, thinking them to be more beautiful than truth. To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in woman, and an added grace in man.”
Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford, 1973; vol. ii, p. 367)
A reading
For the first time in 19 or 20 years (as well as I can remember), I will be doing a reading: some poetry, some fiction, maybe even a look at the graphic novel, at South Texas College in McAllen, Texas, next Tuesday at 4 p.m. Y’all fly on down and join the crowd.
March elimae
Enjoy. (It’s free.)
At an auto show yesterday
It’s a Fiat.
Did I already post this? (another for Andrew)
My peculiar
fantasia on Philoctetes, Sophocles and translation (inspired by Fortunato Salazar’s kind invitation) is now published at Everyday Genius.
February elimae
is now posted.
Kim Chinquee
and Oh Baby get some attention.
January elimae
is now posted for your viewing enjoyment.
Happy new year to you all!
December elimae
is now posted. I hope you will find something to enjoy.
Entertain Me Lest I Swat Thee 2
Kim Chinquee
On November 30, Kim Chinquee — writer, teacher and co-editor with Doug Martin of the upcoming Online Writing: the Best of the First Ten Years — will become editor for fiction and creative nonfiction at elimae. (I will continue editing poetry, literary essays and reviews, and interviews.) I am preparing the December issue right now, and Kim’s hand will first be seen in the January 2010 issue. I am quite pleased to begin this new partnership.
Meg Pokrass was kind enough
to interview me for SmokeLong Quarterly.
The Alamo Venus
Based on Velazquez’s “The Toilet of Venus” (aka “The Rokeby Venus”).
Issue: Hairy back and hairy chest show through shirts.
Solution: Wear an undershirt, tank or sleeveless. However, it’s important to note that hairy chests have now become acceptable and no longer need to be waxed away or hidden. Some chest hair showing at the neckline is now acceptable.
(I found this site while trying to get an answer to the question, “Does anyone make sized men’s underwear without elastic?” (i.e. boxer shorts that fit at the waist [which of course means a button at the waist and a fly], like in the old days)
(Another question: When did hairy chests become unacceptable?)
“Josie,
I won’t fail you.”
The November elimae
is now posted.
Jakob von Gunten: Robert Walser
“Kraus has principles, he sits firmly in the saddle, he rides satisfaction, and that is a horse which people should not mount if they want to do some galloping.” (NYRB, 1999: pp. 3-4)
En sourdine
Happy Hallowe’en!
I may have posted this before, but you need it again, especially tonight.
Wacky
(via Washington Monthly)
Meg Pokrass’s Lost and Found,
available in November from Bannock Street Books, features 10 stories first published in elimae and 7 of my paintings and drawings.
To what extent
do you consider buying an ebook for an ebook reader different from buying an mp3 file instead of a CD? Discuss.
Eric Bogle’s
truly potent anti-war song.
It’s been performed by the Pogues and many others, but Bogle wrote it.
The Good Soldier again
“But, at any rate, there is always Leonora to cheer you up; I don’t want to sadden you. Her husband is quite an economical person of so normal a figure that he can get quite a large proportion of his clothes ready-made. That is the great desideratum of life, and that is the end of my story. The child is to be brought up a Romanist.
“It suddenly occurs to me that I have forgotten to say how Edward met his death.”
(Ford Madox Ford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1990, pp. 292-3.)