Literary

As a youngster I was easily taken in by Ezra Pound’s flamboyant personality and crackpot, brash prose and poetry. He was mocking, antic and vastly more to my taste than sober-sided Eliot or

Marjane Satrapi in Action - Interview Magazine - For those who know it, the name "Marjane Satrapi" evokes vivid cartoon illustrations arranged in panels—crisp line drawings that tell a world of different stories sharing a common backdrop: Iran, her native country. Now located in France, Satrapi forced her way into the public consciousness with Persepolis, a moving graphic memoir that detailed her experiences growing up in the wake of 1979's Iranian Revolution

Joyce Carol Oates

Susan Sontag from "The New York Times Sunday Magazine."

The hobbit, Dutch paperback from 1970 cover by Cees Kelfkens

In the famous travel book, Innocents Abroad, the writer Mark Twain wrote extensively on his opinions of Constantinople and Symrna. (Current day Istanbul and Izmir)

The MWP Faulkner Gallery: Faulkner at the University of Virginia

Posts about Pound, Ezra written by R J Dent

Salman Rushdie on what the books “Slaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Catch-22,” by Joseph Heller, and others tell us about the nature of war and humanity.

La Casa dei Trei Oci présente, jusqu'au 8 décembre 2015, l'exposition Sguardo Di Donna : De Diane Arbus à Letizia Battaglia, organisée par Francesca

Russell Platt on the poet Ezra Pound’s strange opera “Le Testament de Villon,” which will be performed at Symphony Space.