Category Archives: Little Words

Barry Blitt to Duke it Out in Three-Way ASME Final

Congratulations to Barry Blitt, whose Ahmedinejad/Larry Craig cover from October 2007 is “competing”:http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/magazines/marc_jacobs_eliot_spitzer_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_battle_for_cover_of_the_year_95340.asp against two worthy efforts: Todd Eberle’s pic of Mark Jacobs for _Interview_, and Henry Leutwyler’s cheeky photo of Eliot Spitzer for _New York_. Good luck, Barry!

You Know This Already, But Ian Parker Nailed It

Martin Schneider writes:
What do you think of the notion that Ian Parker’s Profile of Alec Baldwin may be the most successful Profile of recent years? It’s been cited all over the place, and everyone seems delighted with it. I think it’s penetrated an unusually wide audience for New Yorker fare, and since it’s kind of awesome, that’s a good thing. Am I wrong on this? Are there any other contenders? What are they?

Listen: Galway Kinnell Reading “When the Towers Fell”

The poem was first published in The New Yorker; here, he reads it aloud and talks about writing it. Galway’s voice always moves me. I’m also rereading Kim Addonizio’s lovely, forlorn poem “What the Dead Fear,” and I think you’ll find it apropos, too.
Extremely incidentally, I was among the students Galway mentions in his introduction, whose first class in the NYU creative writing program was scheduled for that day.

Tilley, Anyone? Eustace Is, As We Knew, All the Fashion

Via the continuously indispensable Manhattan User’s Guide, here’s a new source of Tilleyiana I hadn’t expected. Here’s Charlie Suisman’s description: “Local clothing deals tend to be for women; The Choosy Beggar wants to restore some balance for the guys.” True enough, and also, TCB’s blog icon has a swell familiarity to it. Who says a dandy has to spend a fortune to be a Beau Brummel?