Joseph Bottom

Author Archive

  • April 29, 2019
    The negative reviews of Bret Easton Ellis's new book are almost enough to make one want to defend it. Perversity may be underrated as a motive for human behavior: Nothing makes me...
  • April 9, 2019
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the author of some of the best-named books in the history of American poetry. You'd have to search a long time to find titles as good as the one he gave his...
  • April 4, 2019
    With the flutter of the year's first robin redbreast, with the promise of the first warm breeze of spring—the patter of an early April rain, the almost phosphorescent green of...