Poem-A-Day from Knopf

I’m currently reading the brilliant memoir Are You Somebody? by Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain. In the book, O’Faolain beautifully discusses the challenges of growning up female in Dublin in the

Anyone who knows my tastes in books, knows that Nick Hornby is my favorite author these days. The author of the brilliant “High Fidelity”, “About A Boy” and “Fever Pitch”,

From Calvin Trillin, the man who introduced so many of us to Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque we have this wonderful and topical poem… I Think I Heard a Liberal Say Calvin