On Poetry
If understanding poetry is to go beyond syllable count or [...]
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
The cover of Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure is an [...]
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays
Whatever one’s assessment of Norman Mailer’s prodigious output—and the opinions [...]
Slow Flame
Once, in Northern California, she and I were walking through [...]
The Glory that was Greece, the Grandeur that was Rome
“The Antients may be considered as a rich Common, where [...]
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Philip Roth has been firmly ensconced in America’s literary pantheon [...]
Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
“Reader, you have in your hand a motley collection of [...]
This Old Watch
This old watch isn’t really that old, not in the [...]
Apuleius Translated
I’ve been looking at asses. More specifically, I have been [...]
Culled and Not Culled, the Poet Will Be There
I ask the reader to join me in an excursion [...]