Archive - The Feckless Bellelettrist

A Past Self Meets Other Past Selves

Jun 30 •

Brodkey in the Wilderness

Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness" found me at last, after many years of my successful ducking.

Jun 16 •

April 2025

American Reconquista

Around the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera

Apr 16 •

March 2025

Lisbon Dispatch

A time of gifts

Mar 18 •

February 2025

Joseph Roth at the CVS

Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down

Feb 19 •

January 2025

Writers on Other Writers' Writing, part 2

Joshua Cohen, Rochelle Gurstein, and a note from Nell Zink

Jan 9 •

December 2024

Writers On Other Writers' Writing

Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Nell Zink, Joshua Cohen, Rochelle Gurstein

Dec 12, 2024 •

Décor or Destiny?

Dec 2, 2024 •

November 2024

On Incoherence, or Things Fall Apart

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man substacken

Nov 12, 2024 •

April 2024

Spring Poetry Special

Apr 17, 2024 •

The End of a City I Loved

Apr 8, 2024 •

February 2024

Some Real Estate Opportunities

[Editor's note: The Feckless Bellelettrist is proud to present the first in what I hope to be an occasional series of "guest essays." The author is my…

Feb 21, 2024 •

Thomas de Monchaux

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