From the monthly archives: January 2009

All-American Poem

On January 26, 2009 By John Stoehr

By Matthew Dickman (American Poetry Review, 2008)

I first encountered Matthew Dickman’s “Trouble” in a recent issue of The New Yorker. It’s a litany of the many ways famous people killed themselves. Marilyn Monroe took sleeping pills. Marlon Brando’s daughter hanged herself. Bing Crosby’s sons “shot themselves out of the music industry forever.” The list’s [...]

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Funny Westlake Is Missing

On January 18, 2009 By Christopher Arnott

Or, Donald Westlake, R.I.P.

Death is the common currency of popular mystery fiction. So we shouldn’t be so shocked when the major practitioners of the form happen to die. At least they weren't murdered.

Still, the death of Donald Westlake feels like a mortal blow to the entire mystery genre. He was [...]

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A God’s Breakfast

On January 11, 2009 By James Copeland

By Frank Kuppner (Carcanet, 2004)

Beware the writers who give you what you want. Like the gregarious person at a party who immediately compliments your shirt, the over-accommodating writer, so pleasing at first, may in fact have nothing much to say. So in reading the poems of Frank Kuppner, whose charm is a very easy [...]

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