Episode 8 of LFTRR Explains the “First Page Test”
James J. Patterson is the reluctant scholar and on this (the eighth!) episode of Live from the Reading Room, he reads the from his essay of the same name. He also reads from books that have passed his "First Page Test" including "Night Train to Lisbon" by Pascal Mercier, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Muse" by Jessie Burton, "The Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, and "Confessions" by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
Keeping up with Reuben Jackson: Bon Appetit, COMP, Friday Night Jazz and more!
Reuben Jackson has been busy as of late, publishing in a well-known journal, contributing to a piece in Bon Appetit, hosting a WPFW show and more!
“Persuasive” Woman Drinking Absinthe explores “Illicit Love” in New Review from Compulsive Reader
In his new review of Katherine E. Young’s Woman Drinking Absinthe, Charles Rammelkamp delivers a review worthy of the subject. With careful erudition, and no lack of wit, he mines Katherine’s beautiful and heartbreaking poesy about “illicit love” for words of affirmation.
7 Upbeat Poems to Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day (with printable PDFs)
Poem in Your Pocket Day was created by the Office of the Mayor of New York City in 2002 in partnership with the New York Department of Cultural Affairs and Education. Its goal is to reintroduce poetry, a traditionally performative art, into social situations and normal everyday life. As such, PIYPD marks the end of National Poetry Month, bringing the lessons of the month out into the rest of the year.