{"id":1856,"date":"2015-05-12T22:27:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp\/?page_id=1856"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:17:57","slug":"other-writings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/other-writings\/","title":{"rendered":"Other writings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>INTERVIEWS<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/twice-blest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice Blest<\/a>,\u201d An Interview with Joan Silber, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/connoisseur-of-foolishness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connoisseurs of Foolishness<\/a>,\u201d An Interview with Thomas McGuane, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/the-ongoing-promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ongoing Promise<\/a>,\u201d An Interview with Richard Ford, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/keepable-sentences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keepable Sentences<\/a>,\u201d An Interview with Kent Haruf, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>ESSAYS<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/my-name-is-james\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Name Is James&#8230;<\/a><\/em>,\u201d Percival Everett and Mark Twain, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/the-trump-enigma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Trump Enigma<\/a>,\u201d Why Does America Love Trump?, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/westward-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westward Dreams<\/a>,\u201d Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s Dark Vision, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/i-gave-them-a-sword\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Gave Them a Sword<\/a>,? Richard Nixon and Watergate, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/virtue-unrewarded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtue Unrewarded<\/a>,\u201d Jonathan Franzen&#8217;s Tragic Realism, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/articles\/the-sly-masquerade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sly Masquerade<\/a>,\u201d Philip Roth&#8217;s Life and Work, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drb.ie\/blog\/comment\/2020\/11\/07\/a-difficult-healing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Difficult Healing<\/a>,\u201d The 2020 US presidential election, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/an-ordinary-evil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Ordinary Evil<\/a>,\u201d Josef Mengele and the Horrors of Auschwitz, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/the-necessary-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Necessary Details<\/a>,\u201d Robert Caro and Lyndon Johnson, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/kevin-stevens-on-a-lonely-note-seeking-the-tingle-of-true-art-1.2403593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seeking the Tingle of True Art<\/a>,\u201d Writing about Music, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/generation-emigration\/my-family-has-lived-between-ireland-and-the-us-for-60-years-1.2380818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ireland and the US: A Double Life<\/a>,\u201d Living across Two Cultures, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/the-snug-opaque-quotidian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Snug, Opaque Quotidian<\/a>,\u201d John Updike?s Life and Art, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-kevin-stevens-1.434398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ace in the Hole<\/a>,\u201d Montana, Russia, and Nuclear Warheads, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-1.1276403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Ethiopian Run<\/a>,\u201d 10K in Addis Ababa, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/journalofmusic.com\/focus\/i-feel-draught\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Feel a Draught<\/a>,\u201d The Music of Lester Young, the <em>Journal of Music in Ireland<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-1.714766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U2 and Kind of Blue<\/a>,\u201d or ?How Long Does It Take to record an Album?? the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/the-need-to-disguise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Need to Disguise<\/a>,\u201d The Mysteries of Alice Munro, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-1.1276294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waiting ?Round to Die<\/a>,\u201d Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/everything-he-hated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everything He Hated<\/a>,\u201d Philip Roth?s Rage, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-1.946194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independence Day<\/a>,\u201d In Defense of Harry Truman, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/wise-guy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wise Guy<\/a>,\u201d Celebrating Saul Bellow?s Fiction, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/journalofmusic.com\/focus\/heaven-and-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heaven and Earth<\/a>,\u201d The Music of Ethiopia, the <em>Journal of Music in Ireland<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-1.985815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are You Experienced?<\/a>,\u201d Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/an-irishman-s-diary-1.475119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Emperor of Ice Cream<\/a>,? Wallace Stevens?s Sweet Tooth, the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/the-last-thing-she-wanted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Thing She Wanted<\/a>,? Joan Didion?s Explorations of Grief, <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>REVIEWS<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/once-more-with-feeling-1.977645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Once More with Feeling<\/a>,\u201d The Cork Jazz Festival, for the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/lovely-visitors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bark<\/em><\/a>,\u201d by Lorrie Moore, for <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/praise-for-famed-jazz-album-somewhat-overblown-1.712758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Blue Moment<\/em><\/a>,\u201d by Richard Williams, for the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/all-the-known-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>All That Is<\/em><\/a>,\u201d by James Salter, for <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/soundtrack-to-the-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Ellington Century<\/em><\/a>,\u201d by David Schiff, for <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEWS \u201cTwice Blest,\u201d An Interview with Joan Silber, Dublin Review of Books \u201cConnoisseurs of Foolishness,\u201d An Interview with Thomas McGuane, Dublin Review of Books \u201cThe Ongoing Promise,\u201d An Interview with Richard Ford, Dublin Review of Books \u201cKeepable Sentences,\u201d An Interview with Kent Haruf, Dublin Review of Books ESSAYS \u201cMy Name Is James&#8230;,\u201d Percival Everett and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Other writings - KEVIN STEVENS","description":"INTERVIEWS \u201c Twice Blest ,\u201d An Interview with Joan Silber, Dublin Review of Books \u201c Connoisseurs of Foolishness ,\u201d An Interview with Thomas McGuane, Dublin Revi"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1856","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1856\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.kevinstevens.net\/mickser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}