Readings, Rated
Look here, Slouka
Mark Slouka has done much for the University of Chicago Creative Writing department since he was denied tenure at Columbia. I can’t vouch for his teaching style (as his student, I vowed to tear off my own ears if I heard the phrase “The Poetry of Silence” one more time), but the writers he’s bringing in this spring are truly first-rate. Lydia Davis? Unbelievable. My beef is with the times of their impending appearances. Five pm is too early for any working person, including those who are still tens of thousands in debt to the University of Chicago. Mr. Slouka, you wouldn’t want to give the impression that good writing is reserved for ivory tower’d Men of Leisure, would you?