The Listing by Noreen Graf We’re settling into the recent tub, me with my glass of wine, my 30-year-old daughter with some probiotic drink. She lives in my pool home along with her husband whose birthday is right this moment. He’s working late tonight as a server on the Espresso Zone, carrying an “it’s my […]

Poet and former Nationwide Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s simply printed a spate of latest books: Poetry as Enchantment and Different Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic (Mercer College Press, edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede); and final and shortest (205 pages), Weep, Shudder, […]

All through the course of actuality tv, many an unremarkable particular person, having by no means earlier than put pen to paper, has turned to poetry to specific their love and affection.  Provided that  the premise of a courting present is to show love into a contest—demonstrable and quantifiable, in a position to be gained […]

New this month from Sq. Enix is a romantic comedy manga with a nerdy twist in The Otaku Love Connection. Life has its easy joys, and for geeky fanboy Wataru Otonari, that’s admiring his beautiful classmate Yuzuru Kakoi and her equally beautiful boyfriend, Chihiro Kawai. Fortunately for Wataru, his classroom seat subsequent to Yuzuru offers […]

Marc Lehwald, The Mirror Venture, Keukenhof, the Netherlands, 2014, through Wikimedia Commons. Licensed below CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. My very first reminiscence takes place on the native Blockbuster retailer, the place I went one evening with my father to lease a film. I used to be 4 or 5 years outdated. He let me run […]