Andrei Codrescu, poet, novelist, essayist, and commentator for National Public Radio, dropped by Zócalo’s offices en route to speak at Aloud about his latest book, The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess. Codrescu, author of 40 books and founder of the literary journal “Exquisite Corpse”, explains what exactly it means to be posthuman and live the dada way, and how readers should approach his playful, strange, sharp little book.
Matthea Harvey, this year’s winner of the Claremont Graduate University’s Kingsley Tufts Award, is author of three books of poetry and a teacher of poetry at Sarah Lawrence. She stopped …
Matthew Dickman, this year’s winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his poetry collection, All American Poem, dropped by the Zócalo offices to read a couple poems. His work …
Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers)
by Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate remembers his first encounter with Susan Sontag.
Sontag was already a celebrity in the early 1960s, sometimes referred to as “the …
Craig Mullaney’s The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education stands out among memoirs of Iraq and Afghanistan. Winning high praise from military men and book critics alike, The Unforgiving Minute is …
Renowned translator and writer Stephen Mitchell, author of The Second Book of the Tao, was in town last week to give a talk at Aloud L.A. He stopped by the …
