The Useless Critic 2.0

Welcome to 2012! We've been around for 3 years this month. that in itself is INCREDIBLE. So here's to another good year at the UC! To kick off things right, I'm posting an interview with my friend Gabriel Schicchi . 2011 was a big year for him, as he published his debut collection of short stories, Unremembered Thoughts In A Passenger Car . I have to say, it's a pretty impressive and inspiring debut. 2012 seems to only beckon more good things for him! UC:  How will you remember 2011 when you look back on it? Gabriel:     It was a year of biting off more than could be chewed, from worldwide would-be revolt to taking twice the permitted number of Harvard classes, sheer panic on the streets of my love life, and a migraine masquerading as career success. UC:     What was it like, in the process of preparing your book? Gabriel:   After keeping what would become "the book" in the fridge for almost a year after writing most of the stories, out of th...

I've been meaning to do this for a while, I've just been lazy. let's not let a good thing die! Adrienne Rich is STILL ALIVE, OH MY GOD. here is what you should know about her: - has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century." - she has the same birthday as me so she is a god - she is born the same year as my grandma and Anne Frank - she went to Harvard (Radcliffe) - SYLVIA WAS A FAN - married a guy - realized she was gay - stopped being a housewife - REFUSED THE MEDAL OF THE ARTS :O so here I will post her most popular poem. I am not creative. "Diving Into the Wreck" First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask. I ham having to do this not like Cousteau with his assiduous team aboard the sun-flooded schooner but here alone. There is a ladder. The ladder i...