Archive - Wolf Tree

He Promised Me a Hatchet, He Promised Me a Rope of Pearls

Being a Tastemaker is an awful lot of pressure but I have assumed the judge’s mantle two years running, and if I cast it off now it was all for nothing.

Nov 30, 2021 •

August 2021

A washboard, a birch bough, & a ham Sandwich

No, she is sleeping soundly because she drank too much and can't hear the tax collectors coming, just like the song says; dead is dead and asleep is…

Aug 25, 2021 •

July 2021

the trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts

you know what is a really super and understanding piece of literature on the way pain focuses the mind is Leonid Andreyev's On the Day of the…

Jul 7, 2021 •

April 2021

"Loch Ness swallowed Mrs. Hambro. She was wearing pearls."

A doctor gave me a penetrating gaze through the telephone wires some while ago and asked me Was I sure I had no desire to be a literary critic?

Apr 27, 2021 •

March 2021

The Paris Exposition Story

‘The Paris Exposition story’ used to be a thing you could refer to and everyone would know what you meant, you wouldn’t even have to call it that, or…

Mar 5, 2021 •

January 2021

The Bees Beat Him That Time Surely

When I talk about turning my inner eye to the hives of the Bees and becoming, “bee-coming” if you like, a bee aficionado, a bee-person, like the little…

Jan 21, 2021 •

December 2020

Nobody's Taken Your Spectacles, Richard

Calm Down, Can't You

Dec 14, 2020 •

November 2020

Endlessly fine things

I have been beaten down by the anomie & the angst etc. and I am just sending out a list of pleasant things. forgive me

Nov 16, 2020 •

October 2020

Where am I going, where have I been? I lost my head and I lost my sleep and I lost my heart (to my cat: I love her, I’m very sure). I didn’t mean to…

Oct 16, 2020 •

August 2020

"[C]amaraderie, and bonhomie and etiquette and elegance / and the thumbscrews and the guillotine"

I don’t want to go back to the old world / I don’t want to go back to the arcane / I don’t want to go back to the mysterious, elegant old world / Of…

Aug 19, 2020 •

'Send thy ninety cats, let them hasten and come bite the heart of King Mathias'

I should like Randall Jarrell to know that when I was in eighth grade, though it was a few generations later and an even more degenerate time, I did…

Aug 5, 2020 •

July 2020

or, I Know the Secret Name of Mrs. de Winter

Jul 24, 2020 •

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