The prose is hardly electric. Whether or not the form has hit its peak, he writes, "it is becoming evident that the bottom of the barrel is being scraped." And he never even got to these guys. Full Article at Los Angeles Times

There is such ease in the language of "Not That Kind of Girl", Carlene Bauer's memoir, that readers may be lulled into underestimating the alchemy that is taking place. Full Article at More Intelligent Life

From a Queen's Speech modelled more closely on adolescent sex than parliamentary convention (hours of breathless anticipation, then wham, bam, thank you Ma'am, it's over in about two seconds), I learned two things. Full Article at The Independent

Sylvia Plath’s poetry is complicated by the fact that her language and imagery are designed to transform, and even extinguish that which writes: her self. Full Article at Blogcritics.org

“Sylvia” is about the poet Sylvia Plath, who, as this song reminds us, committed suicide by putting her head in an oven. This live version of the song, which is off of the Antlers’ Hospice album, is much more quiet than the original. Full Article at Prefix

THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS. Lydia Davis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30. 740 pages. Full Article at Miami Herald