Floyd & Uyen Against ‘The World’ February 19, 2013: So, we're still at the Comet, perhaps thinking through an atmosphere that I described before, a dazzling sky of unknowable pleasures & speeds, losing control while also piloting wild dirigibles of affect & thought. We're at the Comet right here in Cincinnati, & as such we're in The World, Capital's temporary regency that yields up [...] by Dana Ward

Nadezhda Mandelstam at Silliman’s Blog August 29, 2012: Many thanks to Ron Silliman for posting this wonderful video of an interview with Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's widow and author of the two incredibly fascinating memoirs Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned. She talks about her life with Mandelstam, dishes some literary dirt, and discusses the sexual revolution in Russia [...] by Harriet Staff