Kurt Vonnegut’s dead, in case you hadn’t heard…. So it goes. Vonnegut, the author of counter culture classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, books which were considered required […]
When “The Ever Present Past” doesn’t supply marketing research
Paul McCartney has a new single out called “My Ever Present Past.” (Scroll down the page to download the song.) Not only is it sonically a nice synthesis of a lot of […]
Poetry for critics
By Robert Silvey National Poetry Month is slipping away, and no poetry yet here at Scholars & Rogues. So here’s a choice bit by George Gordon, Lord Byron, our banner rogue. [Actually, […]
The Consolation of Poetry…
As we all know, Virginia Tech has now made history of the most dubious kind: Previously, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at […]
