An afternoon Lull Report …

… courtesy of Dave Lull:



… Q&A: Backstage With Film Director Terry Gilliam - WSJ.com.



… Hmm: Poetry Needed.



I think has it backwards. A different sensibility will find a place for poetry in the boardroom perhaps, but poetry in the boardroom will not necessarily change the sensibility there.



… Creative Writing Courses: a Health Warning.

If I may quote myself, from something I wrote for Boulevard a while back: "Someone else can teach you how to write like somebody else. But nobody can teach you how to write like yourself."



… Another Q&A: NBCC RECIPIENT OF THE NONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING, KATHERINE A. POWERS, IN CONVERSATION WITH SIMONE T. TYRELL (MFA ’14).



… A Grand Tour: In Boswell’s visit with Rousseau, we discover a window into our contemporary selves.

In the mid-​eighteenth century, the European“grand tour” was all the rage: Legions of young Scots and Brits burnished their university education by visiting the continent’s great museums and ancient ruins during the day, then furnished untold sums to the local economies by visiting taverns and brothels at night.