Patti Smith | Year of the Monkey (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019) Amazon | Indie bookstore | public library To get a grip on…
I’ll be at George Mason’s Fall for the Book Festival, October 10, at 2:15, presenting American Bard: With Walt Whitman, Himself. I’m very happy to…
On this 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, it seems only right to post about leaves of grass. Not Leaves of Grass, but actual grass,…
My write-up of Dave Eggers’ The Parade is up at The Millions. Read it here. The plot of the book is deceptively simple: a guy…
Two verses in Walt Whitman’s poem that would ultimately be titled “I Sing the Body Electric” evolved with Walt’s life, and with his parents’ lives. In…
Amazon | Indie bookstore While the focus of Peter Rachleff’s Black Labor in Richmond is, obviously, on black labor, the book crosses race lines to…