Bill Caraher | If you leave me alone in the NDQ archives, there’s no telling what’s going to happen. On a lark, I decided to check out the 1973 volume of NDQ (41.3 for those of you with a scorecard). Coincidentally, I’ve been wading my way through Robert McAlmon’s 1924
Bill Caraher | Like most readers, I’ve been mildly obsessed with Robert McAlmon since I first encountering his name during the breathless revelry associated with the centennial of Joyce’s Ulysses. Evidently McAlmon typed parts of “Penelope” and exerted some kind of editorial influence over its final form. I encountered McAlmon
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been hanging out in the NDQ archives and finding some intriguing things to read over lunch or in the gaps in my day. This morning, I cued up issue 51.2 from Spring 1983. It’s a pretty spectacular issue with a wide range of contributions
Every now and then, I delve into back issues of the Quarterly which are now available online for free. For whatever reason I was surfing through issue 54.2 this week. The issue’s them is “Discontents” which seems an appropriate It contains three poems that trace the tensions between nature and
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