In spite of a near apocalyptic rainfall—four inches courtesy of Hurricane Kyle—the Baltimore Book Festival Saturday proved once again that city’s durable literary vibrancy.
Dozens of white tents tethered to parking meters, lampposts and weighted barrels housed an exuberant crowd of diehard writers, publishers, educators and just plain readers as electrical cables snaked through impromptu ponds [...]
Do you remember The Gates (inset) in Central Park in 2005, that hydrology of orange banners installed by Christos and Jeanne-Claude? I don’t think anybody mentioned it at the time but it had a precedent among the Arabs. They used to hold great poetry competitions in which the poems were painted on vast banners. [...]
Read More...Noah Eli Gordon in an end paper in the Spring issue of Rain Taxi says he recently began to read page twenty-six of every book he owns. The more I thought about this quixotic adventure the more it enchanted me. As I compared it to the evening news, it seemed to me infinitely more [...]
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