Readings Archives

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

When worlds collide

by John Lofton,

Readings

Drawn by Heather McAdams,

??? !!!

by Revaz Misvelaçze,

Try a little tenderness

by Harper’s Staff,

The good parts

by Craig Hosoda,

Diary of an Ex

by Leonard Michaels,

Her voice is flat and coolly distant, so I imagine things aren’t over between us. F. said he ran into his former wife in the street, in New York, and…

Readings

by Cindy Sherman,

Coming into clearcut

by Richard K. Nelson,

Why there are financial planners

Drawn by A. Bacall,

Working-Class Heroes No More

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

Unemployment strategies

by Harper’s Staff,

This is your life

by Harper’s Staff,

When is a flag desecrated?

by Ken Knowlton, Barbara Bean Knowlton,

The general’s wife

by Rafael Goldchain,

Rushdie’s words, under guard

by Harper’s Staff,

G-men with attitude

by Milt Ahlerich,

Ceausescu

by Ana Blandiana,

No little prince

Readings

Drawn by Rick Stromoski,

Mr. Wujec goes to Warsaw

by Jerzy Jastrzebowski,Translated by David Ost,

Readings

Drawn by P.S. Mueller,

Barbara Walters’s theater of revenge

by Mark Crispin Miller,

Writer’s grudge

by Mark Twain,

My white father

by Susan Tucker,

Relax, breathe, visualize, dump her

by Gerald Epstein,

(Very) Fast Food

by Chris Maynard, William Scheller,

Rosemary Jamison’s truck

by Vincent Borrelli,

Vulgar recipes

by John Thorne,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Funk and fibers

by Harper’s Staff,

Wet Verse at The New Yorker

by Charles Bernstein,

From “Water Images of The New Yorker,” by Charles Bernstein. Bernstein’s study was distributed to participants at a poetry seminar held in June at the Kootenay School of Writing in…

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

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When worlds collide

Readings

??? !!!

Try a little tenderness

The good parts

Diary of an Ex

Readings

Coming into clearcut

Why there are financial planners

Working-Class Heroes No More

Unemployment strategies

This is your life

When is a flag desecrated?

The general’s wife

Rushdie’s words, under guard

G-men with attitude

Ceausescu

Readings

Mr. Wujec goes to Warsaw

Readings

Barbara Walters’s theater of revenge

Writer’s grudge

My white father

Relax, breathe, visualize, dump her

(Very) Fast Food

Rosemary Jamison’s truck

Vulgar recipes

Readings

Funk and fibers

Wet Verse at The New Yorker

January 1990

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