Beatrice.com: April 2004 Archives

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April 30, 2004 - Anything I Added Would Be Perceived
as Hyperbolic and Mean
April 30, 2004 - Great Moments in "Duh!"
Or, Joe Wilson: Now It Can Be Told
April 30, 2004 - "April 30," David Lehman
April 29, 2004 - Ed Apparently Has Other Things on His Mind
April 29, 2004 - Maslin Watch: But It's Not Science Fiction
April 29, 2004 - Another Blow for Information Liberation
April 29, 2004 - Mystery Writers Let Their Hair Down
April 29, 2004 - The Queen of Queens
April 29, 2004 - Brace Yourself for Tomorrow's News Cycle
April 29, 2004 - "Visiting a Private Garden Without Success," Yeh Shao-Weng
(translated by Red Pine)
April 28, 2004 - Richard Florida to Critics: You're No Fun
April 28, 2004 - "We are all interested in the future,
for that is where you and I
are going to spend the rest of our lives..."
April 28, 2004 - Two Poets, Each Underappreciated in His Own Way
April 28, 2004 - "The Hug," Thom Gunn
April 27, 2004 - Nice Work If You Can Get It
April 27, 2004 - Dan Brown, Agent of Satan?
April 27, 2004 - "Patrick Buchanan with Footnotes"
April 27, 2004 - Lauren Slater, Take Notes
April 27, 2004 - "Cold Mountain Poem #12," Gary Snyder
April 26, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Monday Morning Mysteries
April 26, 2004 - "Unclean," Brooks Haxton
April 26, 2004 - Let's Talk About Sex
April 25, 2004 - Taking Any Excuse to Press Dawn Powell
Upon You, the Reader
April 25, 2004 - I Am, Admittedly, Easily Amused
April 25, 2004 - Philip Gulley: "Indiana's Garrison Keillor"
April 25, 2004 - "Seersucker Suit," Deborah Digges
April 24, 2004 - Puttering About with Palms and Psalms
April 24, 2004 - "Auto-Lullaby," Franz Wright
April 23, 2004 - With Great Poems Come Great Responsibility
April 23, 2004 - The Chicago Sound
April 23, 2004 - Now Quit Bugging Him
So He Can Get Back to Rereading Milton
April 23, 2004 - "Still Life with Feral Horse," Lucie Brock-Broido
April 23, 2004 - Life During Wartime:
Political Fiction in the 21st Century
April 22, 2004 - Your Emails Are Important to Us...
April 22, 2004 - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
April 22, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Didn't We Just Do This?
April 22, 2004 - "Sonnet 1," Petrarch
April 21, 2004 - The New Alice Walker Would Probably Drive Her Mad
April 21, 2004 - I Read It, Even Though It Doesn't Help My Game Any
April 21, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Good Grief
April 21, 2004 - "Funny Papers" Not So Funny This Week
April 21, 2004 - "Wood Pictures in Spring," John Clare
April 20, 2004 - This Is a Headline for a Blog Item
About a Review of a New Book
by John Barth by Daniel Handler
April 20, 2004 - So Much for the Cross-Promotion
April 20, 2004 - Ban on Women's Prison Writing Comes Undone
April 20, 2004 - Possibly Walker's Worst Review in 20 Years
April 20, 2004 - "Going," Philip Larkin
April 19, 2004 - Moronic Homophobe's Vandalism Jujitsu'd Into Art
April 19, 2004 - All the Money Jokes I Could Put Here
Seem Way Too Obvious...
April 19, 2004 - "Dana Plato Fatality," Rebecca Wolff
April 18, 2004 - Graywolf Press Celebrates 30 Years of Indie Publishing
April 18, 2004 - Now It's Time to Say Goodbye...
April 18, 2004 - "Blood Dub (for Christine Hume)," Jeff Clark
April 17, 2004 - "Dregs," César Vallejo
April 16, 2004 - Not Safe for Work, But Still Informative and Entertaining
April 16, 2004 - Bishop: Queen of American Letters
April 16, 2004 - "Praise Them," Li-Young Lee
April 15, 2004 - Money Makes The World Go Around
April 15, 2004 - Maslin Watch: I Love Paris in the Springtime
April 15, 2004 - Love the Concept, Execution Needs Work
April 15, 2004 - Excelsior, True Believers
April 15, 2004 - Another Academy of Art Student Expelled Over Fiction
April 15, 2004 - NY Post Continues Hypocritical Shilling for HarperCollins
April 15, 2004 - "A labyrinth of narrow streets," Antonio Machado
April 14, 2004 - Foodies, Prepare to Be Entertained
April 14, 2004 - Beatrice Beats WaPo Book World to Story
April 14, 2004 - So What IS the Best Book Review, David?
April 14, 2004 - Can You Spot the Gimmick?
April 14, 2004 - from "Light Comes from Granada," Abdul Wahab al-Bayati
April 13, 2004 - The Latest in Latin Translations
April 13, 2004 - Next Up: Seamus Heaney on Ella Enchanted
April 13, 2004 - UK and US Centers of Lauren Slater Debate Converge
April 13, 2004 - My Literary Taste (or Lack Thereof) Revealed to All
April 13, 2004 - Don't Cry, Don't Raise Your Eye
April 13, 2004 - "Like Blood from a Deep Cut," Joe Wenderoth
April 12, 2004 - Boy, I Hear That One
April 12, 2004 - Oddly, Kevin Bacon's Nowhere to Be Found
April 12, 2004 - Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
April 12, 2004 - I'm the Laureate, There Is None Higher
April 12, 2004 - Shrink Rapped: NYT Notices Slater Flare-Up
April 12, 2004 - "In Praise of Thomas Chatterton," Charles Wright
April 11, 2004 - Maybe Easter Isn't the Best Day to Run This,
But The Poem Should Balance Things Out, Right?
April 11, 2004 - Op-Ed Page Takes a Literary Turn
April 11, 2004 - "Spes," Rubén Darío
April 10, 2004 - "the poem must be as modern
as strategic rocket carriers," Harold Norse
April 09, 2004 - Major League Besuboru
April 09, 2004 - "Experimental Writer Finally Gets Personal"
April 09, 2004 - "The Ghost of Wang Wei Looks at Skagafjord," Bill Holm
April 08, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Grammar Cracks
April 08, 2004 - From the Swink Launch Party
April 08, 2004 - The American Short Story in Decline?
Perhaps Not Yet
April 08, 2004 - "Haiku," Nicholas Christopher
April 07, 2004 - And All the Stars Came Out Tonight
April 07, 2004 - "Heights of Macchu Picchu: I," Pablo Neruda
April 07, 2004 - Meta, We Get Meta...
April 06, 2004 - Lauren Slater: A Postscript
April 06, 2004 - Cue the Swirling Inspirational Music
April 06, 2004 - Letters, We Get Letters...
April 06, 2004 - "Interlude: A Wager," Jesse Ball
April 05, 2004 - Write a Literary Novel and Lose 30 Pounds
April 05, 2004 - Liquor Up Front
April 05, 2004 - Writing Without a Net
April 05, 2004 - From the Lower East Side to East Texas
April 05, 2004 - "Two and Three Seal Medley," John Peck
April 04, 2004 - At Least Stephen Glass Fabricated His Bullshit
April 04, 2004 - "Noon, Thursday," John Stone
April 03, 2004 - Who Is Lauren Slater And Why Is She
Saying Such Terrible Things About Me?
(And Me? And Me? And...)
April 03, 2004 - "White Pines," Robert Morgan
April 02, 2004 - Count Olaf Would Be Proud
April 02, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Back in Action
April 02, 2004 - Soup and Guinness Served Separately
April 02, 2004 - Fandango Claims It Has No Tickets Available, Dammit
April 02, 2004 - "Rose Red," Jesse Lee Kercheval
April 01, 2004 - NYPL Recognizes Young Literary Lion(esse)s
April 01, 2004 - But Did the First Lady Have to Get On the Horn?
April 01, 2004 - "Students," Carl Dennis