Tate Street – A Front Porch For Writers

Phlrp! (Sprezzatura by Mike Young)

In Sprezzatura, his latest collection of poetry, Mike Young finds strange wonder in the cultural decay of the American present. [Read More]
Plagiarisms, etc. (The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem)

Artists and their surrogates who fall into the trap of seeking recompense for every possible second use end up attacking their own best audience members for the crime of [Read More]

Favorite Poems: Wheatley, Carroll

Beware the Jabberwock! In this installment of Favorite Poem Project documentaries, we watch a mother and daughter read Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." We'll also listen to Cornelius Eady share the strength of "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley. [Read More]
Favorite Poems: Browning, Keats
Favorite Poems: Islam, Hopkins
Favorite Poems: Johnson, Owen

A Prison Wherever He Turned (Stoner by John Williams)

July 22, 2017

The plot of John Williams’ 1965 novel, Stoner (NYRB Classics, 2006): Young man becomes assistant professor at University of Missouri, lives unhappy life, has undistinguished career, dies. You can hardly be blamed if you don’t find this particularly enticing, but make no mistake: Stoner (last name of the protagonist—sorry to disappoint) is a work of almost unbearable beauty. [Read More]
I’ll Come Back Once You’re Dead (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanual Bove, trans. Alyson Waters)
So Fearsome a Blue; or, From Grandmother’s House We Go (Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, trans. Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore)
The American Uncanny (American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen)

Copyright 2010-2021 Tate Street Blog at WordPress.com.