Arbitragedy: A Hedge-Fund Poet’s Bittersweet Ballad

Recently, I met a man at a bar who asked me what I did. Not in the mood to split hairs over whether he meant “money” work or inner calling, I answered, apparently slurring heavily: “I work at a hedge fund.

“Really? Wow, that sounds so interesting!” he said, and winked. “I mean, that Read More

Hart Crane’s Hieroglyphs: The Unmentionable Truth

The lost language of Crane: I love the sound of that phrase (its resonance indebted to the David Leavitt novel title). I’m speaking of the lost language of Hart Crane, to my mind the great American poet of the 20th century, inventor of a unique ecstatic poetic language that is at once maddeningly elusive and Read More