Mary Ruefle

Mar 19, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Mary Ruefle

In 1985, after seventeen New York publishers had rejected City of Glass, the lead novella in The New York Trilogy, it was published by Sun and Moon Press in San Francisco. The other two novellas, Ghosts and The Locked Room, came out the next year. Paul Auster was thirty-eight. Although he wrote reviews and translations regularly and his prose poem White Spaceshad been published in 1980, the trilogy marked the true start of his literary career.

Dec 22, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Jjjjjerome Ellis |Amanda Gorman |Christian Robinson |Mary Ruefle

In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two) that brought them joy or comfort or pleasure this year. *** Holly Amos, Associate Editor American Inmate by Justin Rovillos Monson Recently, I got to read an advance copy of Justin Rovillos Monson’s American Inmate (forthcoming early in 2024 from Haymarket Books).

Dec 15, 2023 | lonelyvictories.substack.com | Sigrid Nunez |Christopher Norris |Katy Kelleher |Mary Ruefle

I asked some of my favorite newsletter writers to recommend their favorite new books of the year. Here’s what they picked. NAME: NEWSLETTER: BOOK REC: Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise The best introduction to complexity theory that I have ever found or that possibly exists.

Oct 11, 2023 | poets.org | Jos Charles |Allison White |Louise Mathias |Mary Ruefle

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Sep 5, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Mary Ruefle |Janani Ambikapathy

By Mary Ruefle In the prose-poem “Pixie,” from Mary Ruefle’s The Book, the speaker recalls her first haircut, on what she “might now call the Day of the Great Shorning,” when she was “caped like a princess and set on a throne” that “turned like a planet.” Sitting on her throne, the child marveled at the bottles of potions, fixating on one with a “comb suspended in it like a shark in the aquarium,” which she fantasized about taking home: it would look nice in my room, I was so intent on taking...