If you hurry right now, you can visit the WALL STREET JOURNAL online & read a recent article written by Chip Kidd titled, “Book Designer Chip Kidd’s Favorite Things”. Now, if you have never visited that site before, they will allow you to read it for FREE. But, if you bookmark it & go to read it later, you’ll hit a “Pay Wall”. Sorry about that, but it’s out of our control, ha! So, please go give it a read […]
Please be sure to check out this wonderful video by Langdon Hammer where he interviews J. D. McClatchy about the Great American Poet, James Merrill (pictured up above).
Gil Roth, over at the VIRTUAL MEMORIES podcast, recently interviewed the Author, Essayist and Poet, J. D. McClatchy at his home in Connecticut. Their conversation not only revolves around his amazing career but also covers a ton of interesting literary ground as well. Stuff like: Adapting a novel (The Leopard) to opera, having his life changed by a course with Harold Bloom, collecting letters from the likes of Proust and Housman, and marrying Chip Kidd! We also get into his friendship with James […]
J.D. McClatchy is the author of eight collections of poetry including his latest book, Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, with a Book Jacket design by Chip Kidd). He has edited numerous other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has written a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is editor of the Yale Review. In this video we get a […]