David Given Schwarm

The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is without a doubt one of the all time great novels. An amazing tale of modern living that is so damn timeless it is scary–I have no idea how Nabokov did this–pure magic. The Chess backdrop is gold, but the childhood stuff…

What Work Is by Philip Levine My rating: 4 of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing! I picked this one up for five dollars at the great downtown LA book store, The Last Bookstore. I was buying books with National Book Award Winner stickers–I think I got four including a biography of Nabokov. The poems range from…

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.