An interview with Michel Houllebecq, French iconoclast

I have never read any of Michel Houllebecq's work but this interview in the Paris Review is remarkable.

Currently Reading

John Updike's 2001 collection of poems Americana. Updike is a master of economy, the watchman with a pulsing eye be it a dry overlay at a Midwestern airport or the occasion "Upon Becoming A Senior Citizen" dated March 18, 1997. From him we learn how to describe today's very cold Easter Day bluster. "The day another grudging chill installment/ of slow spring in New England...." The slow spring is testing our patience which is as good a time to thumb through this delightful collection of poems.

R.I.P John Updike

John Updike, has died. Here's a Chris Lydon interview with Updike on the art of taking a walk though a museum.

dribble, dribble and more dribble: Obama's poet

American Thinker: Obama's Poet

Forget the economic crisis, the continuing terrorist threat, crime, and our nutty judicial system. It is literature in America that is really in trouble.

She certainly speaks her mind

Doris Lessing, unleashed. Would you have her any other way?