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Tue Oct 25 2011 Character in Nonfiction by Donald Morrill You can renounce food, shelter, sex—but you cannot renounce character because, at the very least, Read more...	Mon Oct 3 2011 Gurov in Manhattan by Ehud Havazelet "Gurov in Manhattan," originally published in TriQuarterly 137, was recently selected for the 2011 Read more...	Mon Sep 26 2011 From the Mean Streets to Baker Street by Francine J. Sanders The following essay is from the book Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy, a collection of contemporary Read more...
Mon Aug 22 2011 Excerpt from Luminarium by Alex Shakar LuminariumBy Alex Shakar Soho Press It’s the summer of 2006 in New York. Fred Brounian’s twin Read more...	Mon Aug 1 2011 Liberal Arts Majors Need Not Apply: The Declining Value of Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century by Melissa Ackerman Lord Henry Brougham, lawyer, statesman, and founder of the Edinburgh Review, once said, “Education Read more...	Wed May 4 2011 Goodbye, Tuscaloosa by B.J. Hollars BEFORE Let me tell you about my wife and my dog and our bathtub. How just Read more...
Mon May 2 2011 “My Name is Ned and I’m an Addict”: Facebook and the Personal Essay by Ned Stuckey-French This essay, adapted for TriQuarterly Online, was originally presented at "Status Update: The Read more...	Mon Apr 25 2011 Donna Brazile Loves Mud-Slinging, or Why We Need the Essay Now by Jocelyn Bartkevicius This essay, adapted for TriQuarterly Online, was originally presented at "Status Update: The Read more...	Mon Apr 18 2011 Status Update: The Personal Essay in the Age of Facebook by Susan McCallum-Smith This essay, adapted for TriQuarterly Online, was originally presented at "Status Update: The Read more...

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The Moving Face (for Roger Ebert)

The first time I ever really thought about Roger Ebert it was because I knew he was warm, dry, and celebrating and I was cold, wet and furious. It was January 2005 in Chicago, and unsurprisingly it was snowing on me and members of Not Dead Yet as we staged a protest outside the Union League Club, surrounded by a row of news trucks.
On the Early English Essay: An Experimental Array

"Essay" enters into English untamed.
The Facts of the Matter

Here is how it happened: The door to the suite was open that night when I walked past and saw her splayed across a couch, one foot on the floor, one leg hooked over an arm rest.
Excerpt from Office Girl

On that Monday at the end of January, Jack Blevins, a questionable young man of twenty-five, rides his blue bicycle beneath the flurry, with tape recorder in hand.

Interviews

Douglas Foster: Interview

"We’re quite rightfully concerned by the level of unemployment in the United States and the ways people were devastated by the financial crisis of 2008, but in the circumstances people face in a place like South Africa, 10 percent unemployment would be heaven."
Stephen Elliott: Interview

“We all change; the things you want from writing, at a certain age, become different from the things you want later. I’ve avoided any obligations, and I still live like a child. I don’t have a wife and kids. I’m on my own. It’s a choice.”
B.J. Hollars: Interview

"Blurring the Boundaries was inspired by my own frustration with facts."
Karen Rigby: Interview

My poetry won’t suit everyone. It has been described as dense; I’m aware of that response, so I wouldn’t say “I hope everyone reads it.”

Reviews

The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

At the heart of this collection, Barnett’s second, is an engagement with Kant’s idea of the sublime, namely that the self experiences both terror and dread in the face of the infinite—whether death or, as the Romantics understood it, the implacable force of Nature.
Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, by Heléne Aylon

The memoir, like the artist herself, swerves between cutting-edge installation art, the ancient passages of the Bible, and centuries-old Jewish law and tradition.
The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990 edited by Harold B. Segel

This fascinating book, edited by Prof. Harold B. Segel of Columbia University, presents a rich sampling of writings by people imprisoned in the jails of the former Eastern European Soviet colonies...
Love: An Index by Rebecca Lindenberg

In 2009 the poet Craig Arnold disappeared on the remote Japanese island Kuchinoerabujima, while hiking near a volcano. Though Japanese authorities searched for days, Arnold was never found. Rebecca Lindenberg, his partner of six years, has now written Love: An Index, a meditation on their love and her loss of him.

Blog Posts

How Poems Move #12

Apr 25, 2013
How Poems Move #11

Apr 23, 2013
How Poems Move #10

Apr 18, 2013
How Poems Move #9

Apr 17, 2013