INTERVIEWER
Do you have a Roth reader in mind when you write?
ROTH
No. I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, “How he is going to hate this!” That can be just the encouragement I need.
PHILIP ROTH, The Art of Fiction No. 84 Interviewed by Hermione Lee The Paris Review Fall 1984.
via domestigay
JACK GILBERT Collected Poems. New York: Knopf, 2012.
p 316. 319. 330. cover.
see also: Waiting and Finding
What Is There to Say
“Jack Gilbert, The Art of Poetry No. 91″ The Paris Review
The Henry Miller Library, Big Sur
Photo: Shelley Town (Happy 50th)
Photo: KIRBY
KEVIN SMOKLER, Grub Street Daily interview
Photo: KIRBY
Earlier this month I tiptoed into the third-floor Berg Collection, where you need to file a request slip even to sneeze, to consult a copy of Samuel Johnson’s “Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.” It turned out to have belonged once to James Merrill, and the endpapers were doodled with fragments of his poetry.
EDMUND MORRIS, “Sacking a Place of Culture,” New York Times Sunday Review, April 21, 2012
Photo: KIRBY, The Berg Collection, NYPL
*or, Death of a Book Lover
