Prose
"A right retreat?," essay in Mail&Guardian magazine, Cape Town, South Africa, 4/5/07 The very air (complete), a short story at New English Review, 3/07 The very air (part 2), a short story at New English Review, 2/07 "Dove Descending," book review at First Things, 1/07 The very air (part 1), a short story at New English Review, 12/06. It Is Called Poetry, Not Map-Reading, a book review at CE, 7/6/06. Posts at the Iconoclast, 4/06 to present. Progress of a Poet's Soul: Review of Auden and Christianity, America magazine, 11/7/05 Poetry Country, The New Criterion's "Armavirumque," 4/5/05 A Poem for the West: Chesterton's Lepanto, Catholic Exchange, 4/22/04 Poem for a 1400-Year War, Filling up Space, 4/13/04 Poem for the West, ESR, 4/12/04
Hope on the Cultural Scene, Catholic Exchange, 12/12/03 A Poet Helms the National Endowment for the Arts, Filling up Space, 11/22/03 The Singular Mr. Gioia, ESR, 11/10/03 Catholic Poet Unchained, Spinsters, 10/20/03 Nothing Is Real, Spinsters, 9/28/03 Evil, Hatred Thereof, Spinsters, 9/18/03 Monday Morning Morals, Spinsters, 9/15/03 The Left's Unrequited Love for the Moon, Spinsters, 9/13/03 What Passes for Humor, Spinsters, 7/29/03 America: "Hard to Wake Up, Harder to Put Back to Sleep, Spinsters, 7/24/03 A Rabblement of Lemmings, Spinsters, 7/17/03 More Than One Way to Burn a Book, Spinsters, 7/16/03 Query, Spinsters, 7/6/03 About All Diversi-Tied-Up?, Spinsters, 6/28/03 Representing Relativism, Spinsters, 6/21/03 When the Home Front Is a Front, ESR, 4/7/03 Oriana Fallaci and the Place of Passion, The Texas Mercury, 3/11/03 The New York Times Repackages Punk, The Texas Mercury, 1/13/03
All Stupidity Is Local, The Texas Mercury, 11/25/02 America Alienated: Aliens in America Reviewed, The Texas Mercury, 10/27/02 Somebody Blew Up Parnassus, Spintech Magazine, 10/22/02 Irrelevant Irritants: The Antiwar Left in New York, The Texas Mercury, 9/29/02 Pure Enjoyment, Spintech Magazine, 9/04/02 Long Time Coming: The Cell Reviewed, The Texas Mercury, 8/25/02 A World of Laws, The Texas Mercury, 7/28/02 Fast Friends, Spintech Magazine, 7/22/02 Poetry Magazine's Big Surprise, The Texas Mercury, 7/21/02 Lost Cause, The Texas Mercury, 7/7/02 American Juries: Non Compus Mentis, The Texas Mercury, 6/23/02 Love in the Ruins: The Catholic Church Scandal, Spintech Magazine, 6/10/02 Bloodlines: The Saudis Flinch at the Track, The Texas Mercury, 6/9/02 Attack of the Culturados, The Texas Mercury, 5/26/02 Diversions, Spintech Magazine, 5/20/02 Do Poets Matter?, The Texas Mercury, 5/19/02 Time to Shop Nursing Homes, Spintech Magazine, 4/15/02 Envy, Spintech Magazine, 3/18/02 Kenneth Cole Consciousness, Inc., Spintech Magazine, 2/22/02 Too Serious Not to Be Taken Lightly, Spintech Magazine, 2/4/02 Market War, Spintech Magazine, 1/14/02
The Empathy Industry, TV Division, The Vocabula Review, December 2001 Two Communities, Spintech Magazine, 11/21/01 9/11 Photo Essay, Big City Lit, 11/01 Not a Text: The Reality of September 11 vs. "Reality", Spintech Magazine, 10/29/01
The following letter was published in Vanity Fair in their July 2001 number in response to Christopher Hitchens' May article "We Know Best."
I read with pleasure--and enjoyed a cigarette while doing so--Christopher Hitchens' protest against the relentless program of self-styled national nannies in America and Great Britain to criminalize the behavior of yet more millions of their fellow citizens. The pleasure came not just from Hitchens' spirited prose but also in reminiscing about the time I served him a drink in the early 90s at a bar I was tending on Capitol Hill. He asked to buy me a drink, and when told that the restaurant forbade it, he graciously offered me a cigarette instead. I accepted. Hitchens nails the bad logic and incivility of our neo-prohibitionists, and his anecdotes about New York City are all too true. Let me add one more recent example: Belmont Park racetrack, where almost the entire area, indoors and out, is now plastered with no-smoking signs. It seems absurd that an establishment based on the very principle of risky behavior would prohibit just that. And they wonder why attendance keeps dropping. Robert Bové Brooklyn, New York
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