Charles Simic |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Thursday....
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:09:00 PST |
Waiting for Sarko, or Sarko hearts Godot |
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy, a blunt and uncompromising pro-American conservative, was elected president of France Sunday with a mandate to chart a new course for an economically sluggish nation struggling t...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:48:00 PST |
Contest |
A title for the film adaptation of Sylvia Plath's novel the Bell Jar. Starring Julia Stiles. # Save The Last Electroshock Therapy Sesh# Pre-Prozac Nation# Breathing Lessons# Girl, Uninterrupted"Ten Th...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:36:00 PST |
What sort of mind is that? Its a world! |
"Correspondence is killing me", Balzac told his mother in 1832. "I have to write to two people at once . . . . My life is a constant miracle"; "It's incredible how much I manage to produce." The new e...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:25:00 PST |
Concealment and Exposure |
Everyone knows that something has gone wrong, in the United States, with the conventions of privacy. Along with a vastly increased tolerance for variation in sexual life we have seen a sharp increase ...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:04:00 PST |
Woody Allen meets Billy Graham |
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Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:37:00 PST |
Of Love And Other Disasters |
The punch-press operator from Flintmet the assembler from West Virginiain a bar near the stadium. Neitherhad anything in mind, so they conversedabout the upcoming baseball seasonabout which neither ca...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:03:00 PST |
She's got icicles for eyes |
Anne Sexton ...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:35:00 PST |
(and, I added, in a largely futile attempt at humor, not nearly as good-looking.) |
Believe it or not, it's because I decided, a few years ago, to grow my hair long. If you look at the author photo on my last book, "The Tipping Point," you'll see that it used to be cut very short and...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:26:00 PST |
Tension by Billy Collins |
TensionNever use the word suddenly just tocreate tension.Writing FictionSuddenly, you were planting some yellow petuniasoutside in the garden,and suddenly I was in the studylooking up the word oligarc...
Posted by The Timothy Corporation on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:00:00 PST |
