Loads of Learned Lumber

I LOOKED UP "Nicholson Baker" on Wikipedia--one of the many topics on which Baker has written wittily, informatively, and thoughtf...

LATELY I WORRY about something I think of as "virtue porn," e.g., the film versions (not necessarily the original books, which I h...

IS THERE SOMETHING about aging novelists that draws them to ancient, elemental stories? The Old Man and the Sea , A Fable , East of Eden ......

I WAS NOT sure this project was going to work, but now it's done: seven volumes of poetry in seven days. Each one worth reading, too, di...

A MONTH IN California?--squint--no, it's "mouth." Not only Graham Foust's volume's title but also many of its poems in...

I JUST NOTICED that Loads of Learned Lumber has now passed its fourth birthday; first post was May 21, 2008.  I am also now at just over 20...

I DON'T RECALL why I bought this; strangely enough, I bought it before it made several best-of-the-year lists, even though I had read no...