Arts

Mean People Suck

Gail Mount, From Texas Journal

How to Read a Poem

Edward Hirsch, From New Age

Aynal Fixation

Jon Spayde

Can American TV, and ER, Be Art?

Kathryn Hughes, Ben Rogers, Prospect (Www.Prospect.Org)

Andrei Codrescu, Insomniac

Andrei Codrescu, From The Book The Dog With The Chip In His Neck

The Words of the Vietnam War

Jeremiah Creedon

My Grandmother's Peonies

Michael Fox, From The Book My Favorite Plant

A Bowling League of Our Own

Marc Cooper, The Nation (Www.Thenation.Com)

Louis Armstrong Comes Marching Back In

Keith Goetzman

An Interview with Anne Lamott

Linda Buturian