LAVERN BAKER ~

 

 

The cathedral, which remains unfinished, in 2017. It dominates the landscape of Mejorada del Campo, a town outside Madrid Credit...

Gianfranco Tripodo for The New York Times

J U S T O     G A L L E G O

M O N K, B U I L D E R

EXECUTIVE SUITE ~ (Fly the Friendly Skies) ~

 

The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing

An engine recovered from a Boeing crash, Jakarta, 2018Credit...

Achmad Ibrahim/Associated Press

R E A D      M E

TED KOOSER ~

 

At Dusk, In Decemeber

Driving a gravel road in the country

I saw a hawk fly up out of a ditch

with a mouse in its beak, and it flew

along beside my car for a minute,

the mouse still alive, its little legs

running as fast as they could, and there

we were, the three of us, all going

in the same direction, west, at just

a little under forty miles per hour.

____________________

Ted Kooser

Red Stilts

Copper Canyon Press

2021

CRAFT ~

 

R E A D     M E

Bloomsbury 2021

MICHAEL HURLEY ~

 

TOM STOPPARD ~

 

R E A D     M E

                               Tom Stoppard on his way to Darjeeling, India, in 1990. Photo: Karan Kapoor

JOANNA HOGG ~

 

JOHN BONHAM, BEAST ~

 

R E A D      M E

Hatchette

2021

THE TWELVE LIVES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK ~

 

Finally, after many biographies

— a fresh look

LARRY WILLIAMS ~

 

GLORIA GERVITZ ~

 

New York Review of Books

 2020

SHIRLEY JACKSON ~

 

R E A D      M E

Random House

2021

BILLY LEE RILEY ~

 

 

THE HISTORY OF BONES, JOHN LURIE ~

 

R E A D     M E

Random House

2021

DION ~ SAM COOKE ~

 

BIG JOE WILLIAMS ~

 

SVETLANA ALPERS ~

 

ROBERT BLY ~

 

Dec. 23, 1926 ~ Nov. 21, 2021

Snowfall In The November Afternoon

I
The grass is half-covered with snow.
It was the sort of snowfall that starts in late afternoon,
And now the little houses of the grass are growing dark.

II
If I could reach down, near the earth,
I could take handfuls of darkness!
A darkness that was always there, which we never noticed.

III
As the snow grows heavier, the cornstalks fade farther away,
And the barn moves nearer to the house.
The barn moves all alone in the growing storm.

IV
The barn is full of corn, and moving toward us now,
Like a hulk blown toward us in a storm at sea;
All the sailors on deck have been blind for many years. 

"Snowfall In The November Afternoon" by Robert Bly, from Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems.

 © Harper Flamingo, 1999

WALKER EVANS AGAIN ~

 

R E V I E W