So vast was my fanboy admiration of Billy Collins when I was in college, so unencumbered by facts my ambition, and so shameless my neophytic insolence, that I wrote the Poet Laureate of United States – Billy Collins – a poem.
Financial Frenzy:
Don Delillo’s CosmopolisBy Alisa Harris
The novel is about a suicidal, mad pursuit of knowledge – about the desire for immortality through information – and the crash that follows. It is one of those prescient books that resonates more today, with our own financial titans falling, than when it was written in 2003.
Sweet Land:
the Waltz of Olaf and IngeBy Jenni Simmons
Love your spouse, work hard on your sweet land, befriend your neighbor, and spin a good tale.