Commentaries - May 2009

Franklin Littel has died at 91. He lived not far from where I write. I met him several times in the late 1980s at Holocaust conferences.

I’m reading Elizabeth Sifton’s already much-discussed article about the demise of publishing in the current issue of the Nation. Here is a link to the whole, and here are two paragraphs from the middle of the piece:

Third Factory runs its “Attention Span” series (comments on poetry) every so often. Yesterday a new “Attention Span” was released — by Tom Devaney. One of Devaney’s selections, I’m pleased to say, was my book:

Here at a large conference hotel on Copley Square in Boston for a session convened by George Lensing.