He’s a Work-in-Progress
Perry You said I could share anything with you. Here’s my attempt with Metta. Joel May Albert Schlie be full of Metta. May he be well. May he know Joy. That hypocritical fuck. –from…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
The Audacity of Impunity
Dear Carla and Perry Some thoughts for you Cal A few weeks before in took office Barack Obama said No one is above the law. But once he was in office Bush and Company Were…
Why Translation Matters
Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary…
A Path with Pith
With the sangha a few years ago, I read many of the Buddhist sutras as well as Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentaries. It’s good to plunge in and read these classic texts in community. However, the…
On the New York Literary Establishment in the Fifties
“There’s no room for youth and vitality in New York. It is a city full of guilty academicians.” –Gregory Corso “Too big, too multiple, too jaded.” –Jack Kerouac “We want everyone to know that we…
A Poem, a History, a Novel
This fall Dianne, Lynette and I are reading the following books:
Confessions of a Five
Over 25 years ago On my month-long honeymoon in Italy I brought along to read Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
Slow Reading
A young friend decided to read Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine (Her family are refugees from there) Most chapters are a page maybe two She is reading two chapters a day H. D. Thoreau said:…
“Everything Must Be Told and Written Down”
Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012). Laura Rockusch has performed an inspiring service in producing her book, Collect and Record. Contrary to many people’s assumptions…
Gratitude/1053
Gratitude for the 11 people who’ve been reading, writing, and sharing the past two months in the online “Be in Love with Yr Life” Class.