Thinking Again

  I first read Please Kill Me: An Oral History of Punk by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil soon after it came out in 1996. I was very interes...

  The band Pere Ubu was unquestionably my introduction to the concept of an avant garde in art or any other form. I was a junior in college ...

  I’m not really writing a review of Nice , the collected poems of David Melnick, because the intro to the book contains all the information...

  In the fall of 1987, as a second year MA student in Creative Writing at SUNY-Binghamton, I was taking a literary theory course from Willia...

  R.H. Barlow co-wrote a number of stories with H.P. Lovecraft, who he first corresponded with when Barlow was 13. Lovecraft spent time with...

  Nico Vassilakis is one of those little known U.S. poets who has been doing fascinating work for years. Written poems, visual poems, the ar...

  I was fascinated by the chapters (three of them) and other occasional mentions of Van Morrison in Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 ,...