That's the conclusion I drew from reading Adam M. Bright's article "Here, Now: Eckhart Tolle Takes the Stage" in the new magazine The Point, "a Chicago-based print journal devoted to rigorous intellectual essays on contemporary life," that I picked up...

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I heard an interview with Zadie Smith on the radio the other day—she has a new book of essays out, and coincidentally is about to give birth—and she talked about writing novels and how beginnings were painful and endings exruciating, but the middle...

"And now it’s time for novel writing, which today comes from the West Country, from Dorset." Narrative is so fundamentally different from lyric. This is kind of obvious, but writing both of them, I'm amazed by the different muscles they employ, and...

That's one of my own lines. From an untitled (they're all untitled) severance song:After form fails a furling, reports dying away, look away. The panicle sprouts from the clavicle, from spinal grimace, ribs fasicled by the itch of a glance that...