On the Trail of the Book At dawn stanchions stand at attention when the pearl sky with smudges stretches The bridge is the zone of dull shadows nosing around the washed out snapshot where the word oblivion affixes wings to the paperboy and the road is a partisan smuggling colored [...]
Author Archives: Thomas Yagoda
Rebecca Keith
January 21, 2012 – 4:49 pm
To contain it so gently The first time I saw him he had barrettes in his hair, wore a huge hoodie and big pants and looked like a cross between a raver and a boy in a fairy tale. The last time I saw him he was hooked up to a ventilator—all tubes, neck brace, [...]
Sophie Rosenblum
January 18, 2012 – 6:24 am
Awful Math The commotion surrounding the awful math grew to a hollering, and soon Jenny pitched in an extra twenty dollars saying, “I’ll just give more, that’s all.” But that wasn’t all, and once we were in the car, she was off on a steady pace about which one of my moron friends was going [...]
Bruce Smith
October 12, 2011 – 2:23 pm
Congratulations to Bruce Smith and his incredible new collection of poetry, Devotions, which has just been named a finalist for the 2011 National Book Awards. What better a time than now to give our online readers a sampling of his work. This fabulous poem, Devotion: Midrash, originally appeared in Issue 6 of Dossier. ————————— DEVOTION: [...]
Philip Levine, Poet Laureate
August 10, 2011 – 8:12 am
THE WANDERING POETS (by Philip Levine, from Dossier Issue #5) As they return from their pilgrimage, footsore and disgusted, only a few wear jackets and ties. As usual Gerald is the most emphatic: he stands at the corner of Broadway and Spring and demands that an angel descend carrying a glass of tea sugared with [...]
Watch: Peter Straub
June 16, 2011 – 3:58 pm
The Dossier Readings #2 with novelist Peter Straub. Bestselling author Peter Straub (Ghost Story, Koko, Lost Boy, Lost Girl, A Dark Matter) reads from the work of the late Donald Harington, an Arkansas-born novelist best known for his many novels that take place in a fictional Ozark hamlet known as Stay More, AR. This reading [...]
American Weather
May 31, 2011 – 7:15 am
Dossier Contributor Charles McLeod’s first novel, American Weather, comes out this week. It is a vicious and poignantly satirical take on contemporary American corporate culture, following the inspired mind of a wealthy west coast ad man. In its current May/June issue, Poets & Writers has a pretty fascinating story (which anyone interested in the difficulties [...]
