Lea Carpenter
Lea Carpenter was a Founding Editor of Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope. She graduated from Princeton and has an MBA from Harvard. Her Harvard University Commencement Address, “Auden and The Little Things,” was about the need for poetry in our lives. She lives in New York with her husband and son where she produces programming for the New York Public Library. She formerly wrote the Think, See, Feel blog for BigThink.
Henry James knew a bit about Americans abroad, and he put it like this: It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against […]
With all the sturm und drang about Tiger Woods and (his) infidelity, it might be worth remembering William Blake‘s celebrated poem, The Tyger. The poem has nothing to do with […]
Oprah never tried winning over intellectuals. Instead she gave a large number of Americans back their sense of self-esteem.
Gide, Sherwood Anderson, Ludwig Lewisohn, Faulkner, George Moore, Dostoyevsky, Huysmans, Bourget, Arsybashev, Trumbo, Galsworthy, Meredith. Plus the poems of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Tibullus, Heine, Pushkin, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, and the […]
As Noah Feldman shows us in “A Prison of Words,” his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, “refinements” filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety […]
Does everyone need to suffer? Should an image of Nouriel Roubini as standard-level modelizer trouble us? Probably not. As much as we might like the idea of him holed up […]
David Orr raised the question in Sunday’s Times Book Review of what constitutes “greatness” in poetry, writing, “our largely unconscious assumptions work like a velvet rope: if a poet looks […]
It may be we are past the Lessons To Learn stage in this financial crisis, but some, like a few of those very smart people who maintain jobs in finance, […]
The Wikipedia page for John Updike claims to have last been modified today, on February 9, 2009. While Wikipedia allows unique disclaimers for subjects recently deceased—Updike died January 27th, of […]