Ian Singleton

“Cathedral” Raymond Carver

The Known World Edward P. Jones

“The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals” Edward W. Said

“Enemies” Anton Chekhov

“Dog Run Moon” Callan Wink

“Town of Cats” Haruki Murakami

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

“The Boy in the Whale” Josef Firmage

“Another Birth” Sahar Delijani

“Starlight” Ann Beattie

Jews Without Money Michael Gold

Rising Up, Rising Down William Vollmann

“Ein Bericht für eine Akademie” Franz Kafka

Записки юного врача Михаила Булгакова

Мёртвые души Николая Гоголя

Fringe published my writings about the Occupy the Ports actions.

Jews Without Money is an interesting portrayal of the tenement upbringing of early twentieth century Lower East Side, NY. Michael Gold was the pen name for this Communist writer. I handled his papers at the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan. Just recently, I took this book off my shelf and read through some of it. Gold writes socialist realism in order to portray Jewish ghetto life in New York City, to characterize Jews differently than early twentieth century anti-Semitism would have them. In an introduction written contemporaneously to the existence of the Third Reich, Gold declares that Hitler is only using anti-Semitism to distract the proletariat of the German people. He explains that Jews are like any race, including both working-class and bourgeois people. According to Gold, many Jews are Communists because many are proletarians but there are fascist Jews who supported the Third Reich. The claim about fascist Jews is later echoed by Lenni Brenner’s book 51 Documents and might explain why Gold’s book is so unpopular.

Jews Without Money has the intelligent style of a classical leftist: Gold depicts the details of the making of a gangster out of a tough child of the tenement ghetto streets. The narrator is a proud Jewish Communist giving us a glimpse of this character type: to my knowledge not easy to find in Singer, Malamud, or Roth to name some writers of Jewish life in America.

I remember reading some of the author’s novels in progress, typed on newspaper print and badly disintegrating. I urge anyone interested in New York, Jews, and/or the early twentieth century labor movement in this country to read Jews Without Money. It’s quick. You’ll be done in a few days.

Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill

“On Not Being a Victim: Sex, rape, and the trouble with following the rules” by Mary Gaitskill

The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

“The White Horse” by Margaret Atwood

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

A Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

What Work Is by Philip Levine

A Walk With Tom Jefferson by Philip Levine

“Asleep in the Lord” by Jeffrey Eugenides

“The Aquarium” by Aleksandr Hemon

New Yorker fiction issue

“Arachne” by Ovid

“Narcissus” by Ovid

“Niobe” by Ovid

“No Man Is An Island” by John Donne

“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quite Early One Morning by Dylan Thomas

Война и мирЛьва Толстого

This is the journal of a friend, Emily Jones, and her husband: Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure.

They were kind enough to publish my poem.

Robert Hayden was a poet from Paradise Valley, which no longer exists in Detroit.

This is probably one of his most famous poems.

It’s very interesting to think how this might have influenced contemporary African-American forms of art.

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden : The Poetry Foundation

There are some links that no longer work, older ones. Tobias Wolff considers that although many online journals aren’t as prestigious as some of the print ones, they are nonetheless a better way of gaining a readership. It’s simply easier for people to read a story online than it is in a print journal.

However, it’s less embodied, more empheral. What happened here with these links is an example of that.

“The Villainy of Hamlet” Part 2

Here it is, including the ending:

http://thetoucanonline.blogspot.com/2011/07/villainy-of-hamlet-part-two-ian.html

The Lost Soul Boys in Prick of the Spindle.

I didn’t know this had already come out:

The Lost Soul Boys

It’s in a journal from LA (Lower Alabama).

Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter

The Torturer’s Apprentice by Gene Wolfe

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Collected Stories by Lydia Davis

“Desert Breakdown, 1968” by Tobias Wolff

“The Model” by Guy de Maupassant

Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Going For a Beer” by Robert Coover

“Atria” by Ramona Ausubel

“The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill

“Noon Wine” by Katherine Anne Porter

“Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter

“Old Mortality” by Katherine Anne Porter

“Snow” by Charles Baxter

“Cousins” by Charles Baxter

“The Five Forty-Eight” by John Cheever

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison

“Catastrophes in the Air” by Joseph Brodsky

“Daumier” by Donald Barthelme

“For I’m the Boy” by Donald Barthelme

The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter

“College Town, 1980” by Mary Gaitskill

“Folk Song” by Mary Gaitskill

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Война и мир Льва Толстого

Котлован Андрея Платонова

«Третий сын» Андрея Платонова