Women make up 80 percent of the audience for “literary fiction” in the US. I expect that men find their frisson in science fiction and fantasy, video games, podcasts…

One of Tagore’s final poems, echoing, as Edward Hirsch notes, the Rg Veda, from the dawn of Indian literature.

The Son Returns (Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters)

My little one on Thoreau, in the recent issue of Denver Quarterly.