Ian Singleton

Rising Up, Rising Down William Vollmann

Old School Tobias Wolff

Lark and Termite Jayne Anne Phillips

The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides

Cane Jean Toomer

First Light Charles Baxter

“Notes on a Supreme Fiction” by Wallace Stevens

“Stone Mattresses” Margaret Atwood

“Expectations” John Lanchester

“Los Gigantes” T.C. Boyle

“Brother Osgood” David Manning

“The Mall Walker” Justin Allen

“Citizen Conn” Michael Chabon

“Haven” Alice Munro

Occupying Wall Street : the Inside Story of a Movement that changed America Writers for the 99%

Мёртвые души Николая Гоголя

Иностранка Сергея Довлатова

Snuff Виктора Пелевина

Nativity Poems Иосифа Бродского

«Шинель» Николая Гоголя

«Вий» Николая Гоголя

И дольше века длится день Чингиза Айтматова

My story “Her Pictures of the South” is in this issue of Fiddleblack.

“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