Anecdotal Evidence

Half a century ago, in the Winter 1976 issue of The American Scholar , the journal’s editor Joseph Epstein published an essay (under his usu...

In “Cockaigne: A Dream,” published in The New Yorker on January 21, 1974, L.E. Sissman describes the mental city he composed of pieces borr...

“There must be in prose many passages capable of producing a particular kind of aesthetic reaction more commonly identified with poetry.”   ...

For more than thirty years, George Hamlin Fitch (1852-1925) wrote a weekly column for the Sunday book page of the San Francisco Chronicle . ...

Edmund Blunden’s personal library of some 10,000 volumes is now in the collection at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The university purchas...

Out of the blue a poet sent me a pdf of his latest collection and, out of politeness, not gratitude, I thanked him. The guy can’t write. Or ...

I was an early subscriber to Grand Street , the magazine founded in 1981 by Ben Sonnenberg. What surprises me now is how many of its essays,...